Cardinal Mooney High School was a

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high school in

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, a suburb of

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. Named for Edward Mooney, a bishop of the

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who later became a

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, it was opened in 1962, staffed by the

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and the

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. In 1989, with enrollment declining and other financial difficulties, the Brothers and the diocese decided to close the school at the end of the 1988–89 school year. The school building and property were sold to the

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, and was reopened in 1990 as Apollo Middle School. In 2014 Apollo Middle School also closed and the school was reopened under the name Odyssey Academy.

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