 In 1925, responding to Bishop Francis William Howard's call for a four-year Catholic boy's high school in Northern Kentucky, the Marianists opened Covington Catholic High School at Mother of God on West 6th Street, with a freshman class of 32.The commercial school closed the following year as the brothers chose to devote their efforts to the new high school.High school classes were held in the Mother of God School building until a new building could be completed.