- Guerin College Preparatory High School
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Guerin College Preparatory
High SchoolAddress 8001 West Belmont Avenue
River Grove, Illinois, 60171
United StatesCoordinates 41°56′13″N 87°49′39″W / 41.93694°N 87.8275°WCoordinates: 41°56′13″N 87°49′39″W / 41.93694°N 87.8275°W Information Type private, secondary, parochial Motto Love ∙ Mercy ∙ Justice Denomination Roman Catholic Established 2004 Opened 1962 & 1961 Oversight Archdiocese of Chicago President Janet Cobb Grades 9–12 Gender coed Enrollment 510 (2011) Student to teacher ratio 17:1 Campus type suburban Color(s) Blue, Green and Silver Slogan Exceed your expectations Athletics conference Chicago Catholic League (m)
Girls Catholic Athletic Conference (f)Team name Gators Accreditation(s) North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[1] Newspaper 'Voyager' Yearbook 'Traces' Tuition US$8,800[2] Affiliation Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Website www.guerinprep.org Guerin College Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in River Grove, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
Guerin was established in 1962 as Mother Theodore Guerin High School, an all-girls school, by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The sisters named the school after their congregation's foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. The school was renamed Guerin College Preparatory High School[3] when it became coeducational in 2004 and absorbed the students from the all-male Holy Cross High School after that school closed.[4] Holy Cross High School had been opened in 1961.
Athletics
The Guerin Gators are currently members of two athletic conferences. Men compete as a member of the Chicago Catholic League, while the women compete in the Girls Catholic Athletic Association. The 2008–09 season will be the school's last year as members of these conferences, as the school will be joining the new Suburban Christian Conference in 2009.[5]
The school also competes in state championship tournaments sponsored by the Illinois High School Association.
The school sponsors interscholastic sports teams for both men and women in basketball, cross country, soccer, golf, and track & field. The school sponsors teams for men in baseball, football, golf, and wrestling, while there are teams for women in softball and volleyball.[6]
Notes and references
- ^ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". http://www.advanc-ed.org/schools_districts/school_district_listings/?. Retrieved 2009-07-28.[dead link]
- ^ 2011-12 tuition
- ^ GCPHS. "About Guerin". http://www.guerinprep.org/about.html. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ http://www.illinoisloop.org/cath_closed_school_84_04.pdf
- ^ Announcement of Guerin Prep's intention to join the new SCC
- ^ IHSA reference page for Guerin Prep
External links
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Loyola Academy • Mt. Carmel • Providence • Seton Academy • St. Francis de Sales • St. Ignatius • St. Laurence • St. RitaCategories:- Roman Catholic secondary schools in Illinois
- Educational institutions established in 1962
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
- Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
- High schools in Cook County, Illinois
- Private schools in Illinois
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