Plans were finalized and Saint Michael School officially opened in 1877 in a large, two-story, sixteen-room house where the sisters lived and taught. The school, located on the East Side of Palafox Street in the block south of Garden, graduated its first class in 1886. At the same time, the sisters also operated two additional schools in Pensacola: St. Joseph School for the Creoles on Barcelona Street and St. Joseph School for the Colored on Baylen Street.




In 1912, a new St. Michael School opened on the corner of Chase and Baylen Streets, with classes from Grade 1 through High School. This three-story brick building was given the name of "The Torre School" in honor of Domingo Torre, the gentleman whose bequest to the parish made the building possible. The former rectory, located next door at 19 West Chase Street, was renovated and served as a convent for the Sisters.

State accreditation was granted to both the Elementary School and the High School in 1939, making St. Michael the first grade school in Florida to be awarded accreditation from the State of Florida. Student records are on file, beginning with the year 1921. In 1941, the high school portion of St. Michael School ceased to exist when Central Catholic High School of Pensacola - later renamed Pensacola Catholic High - was founded.

In 1949, the Sisters moved "up the hill" to their new convent at the corner of Baylen and Jackson Streets, a former home that had briefly been the Azalea Hotel. In 1961, St. Michael Elementary School was built next door at its present location at 601 North Palafox. At that time, it became an Interparochial School. The "Torre School" was razed to make room for what is now Region's Bank. (In 2004, the vacant convent building was destroyed by fire.)

For the next forty-seven years, St. Michael Interparochial School served a culturally diverse student body who came from all parts of Pensacola and neighboring communities for its quality education and its Catholic principles. However, as with many school systems within Florida, both public and private, the demographics of a declining school-age population, coupled with rising costs in a number of areas, brought about the decision to close St. Michael as an Interparochial School at the end of the 2008 school year.

In late 2009, the property was purchased by the Episcopal Day School of Christ Church Parish to house an early childhood curriculum based program. To pay tribute to the long and honored place that St. Michael's has held in the Pensacola community, the property has been designated the Episcopal Day School, St. Michael's Campus.