As part of the Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Leaders diocesan campaign in the late 1990s, Catholic leaders built two new elementary schools, including St. John Bosco. It opened in 2001 as an interparish school, with financial and pastoral support provided by the parishes of St. Andrew the Apostle, St. Benedict, Corpus Christi, and Holy Spirit. In 2008, with enrollment growing, and at the direction of Bishop Thomas Olmsted, the school incorporated with the Parish of St. Benedict and changed its name to St. John Bosco Catholic School.