Benilde-St. Margaret's School
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St. Louis Park, Minnesota, (Hennepin County) United States |
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| Coordinates | 44°57′30″N 93°20′43″W / 44.95833°N 93.34528°WCoordinates: 44°57′30″N 93°20′43″W / 44.95833°N 93.34528°W |
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| Type | Private, Day, College-prep |
| Motto |
Pietas ∙ Veritas ∙ (Duty ∙ Truth ∙ Knowledge) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Patron saint(s) |
Saint Bénilde Romançon Saint Margaret of Scotland |
| Established | 1907 (St. Margaret) 1956 (Benilde) |
| Opened | 1974 (current school) |
| President | Dr. Adam Ehrmantraut |
| Principal | Dr. Susan Skinner |
| Faculty | 95 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 1,184 (2013) |
| • Grade 7 | 134 |
| • Grade 8 | 151 |
| • Grade 9 | 219 |
| • Grade 10 | 237 |
| • Grade 11 | 229 |
| • Grade 12 | 214 |
| Average class size | 21.6 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.4:1 |
| Color(s) | Red and White |
| Athletics | 26 varsity sports |
| Athletics conference | Metro West Conference |
| Mascot | Red Knight |
| Nickname | Red Knights |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Average ACT scores | 27 |
| Newspaper | Knight Errant http://bsmknighterrant.org |
| Yearbook | Sangraal |
| Athletic Director | Jerry Pettinger |
| Website | www.bsmschool.org |
Benilde-St. Margaret's is a Catholic, co-educational private prep school for grades 7–12 located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, that draws its over one thousand students from throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
It is named after Saint Bénilde Romançon and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Benilde-St. Margaret's was originally a secondary school formed by a merger in 1974 between St. Margaret's Academy, a Catholic secondary school for girls in Minneapolis, and Benilde High School, a Catholic secondary school for boys in St. Louis Park. Its present building was originally that of Benilde High School.
St. Margaret's was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1907 as St. Margaret’s Academy. The campus for this all-girls school was located near the Basilica of St. Mary in downtown Minneapolis and included two mansions and a carriage house that had been built in the 1880s. By 1959 the old school had become inadequate in size – for every 100 girls accepted, about 200 were turned away. The Sisters of St. Joseph, who had anticipated such a problem, had purchased twenty-eight acres, and by 1960 a new school was built on Upton Avenue, near the Eloise Butler Wildflower Gardens and Wirth Park.
The Brothers of the Christian Schools (informally known as the Christian Brothers), under the direction of Brother Mark Sullivan, built a boys' school in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park in 1956 because De La Salle (the first all-boys Catholic high school in the west metro) was full.
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