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Below are listed notable Jesuit high schools or secondary schools, many of which grew into Jesuit colleges or universities, or formed in association with them. This list includes schools at the sixth form level, as distinguished from four-year colleges and universities (above).
Jesuits have founded and/or managed a number of institutions, the first of which was Georgetown Preparatory School, established in 1789. The second oldest is St. Louis University High School, which was founded in 1818. Jesuit secondary schools in the U.S. include (listed by state):
Not all the schools listed are operated by the archdiocese. Some are operated by religious institutes such as the Jesuits or the Franciscans. There are five universities or colleges, and 51 high schools within the archdiocese. As of 2020, the archdiocese has the country's largest Catholic school network. [1]
Verbum Dei Jesuit High School, nicknamed the Verb, is a private Catholic all-boys college preparatory school sponsored by the Society of Jesus in Los Angeles, California.It was founded in 1962 by the Society of the Divine Word to serve students from the Watts neighborhood and the surrounding communities who are economically and academically under-served.
Jesuit John Carroll (1735–1815), who was technically unaffiliated due to the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, became the first Catholic bishop in the young republic, which prevented him from officially rejoining order when it was reestablished in 1814. He founded Georgetown College in 1789, and it remains a pre-eminent Jesuit school. [5]
Although some schools are deemed "Catholic" because of their identity and a great number of students enrolled are Catholics, it is also stipulated in canon law that "no school, even if it is in fact Catholic, may bear the title 'Catholic school' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority" (Can. 803 §3). [citation needed]
St. Anthony High School (California) St. Augustine Academy (Ventura, California) St. Augustine High School (San Diego) St. Bernard's High School (Eureka, California) St. Bonaventure High School; St. Elizabeth High School (Oakland, California) Saint Francis Central Coast Catholic High School; Saint Francis High School (La Cañada Flintridge ...
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles, California) Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Chicago, Illinois) Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (New Orleans, Louisiana) Marquette University Law School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Notre Dame Law School (Notre Dame, Indiana) Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law (Ponce ...