LITTLE FLOWER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Little Flower School, located on North Wading River Road, Wading River, New York, is the only residential Special Act public school district on Long Island.    Little Flower was originally founded as a Catholic parochial school in 1931 by a nationally acclaimed educator of disadvantaged children, Mother Katherine Drexel, of Philadelphia.  She spent her considerable inheritance as a Drexel family heiress to establish sixty-two schools for disadvantaged children throughout the United States.