Bishop Chatard High School
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5885 Crittenden Avenue Indianapolis, Indiana, Marion County 46220 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°51′42″N 86°07′39″W / 39.86167°N 86.12750°WCoordinates: 39°51′42″N 86°07′39″W / 39.86167°N 86.12750°W |
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| Type | Private, Coeducational |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1961 |
| Oversight | Archdiocese of Indianapolis |
| President | Bill Sahm |
| Principal | Rick Wagner |
| Chaplain | John Kimwendo |
| Teaching staff | 50.9 (FTE) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 684 (2013-2014) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.4 |
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| Athletics conference | Circle City Conference |
| Nickname | Trojans |
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Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Cathedral High School St. Theodore Guerin High School |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Newspaper | Trojan Matters |
| Yearbook | The Citadel |
| Website | Official Website |
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Bishop Chatard High School is a Catholic co-educational preparatory high school located in the Broad Ripple district of Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. It is named after Bishop Silas Chatard, who was the first Bishop of Indianapolis, and oversaw the movement of the diocese from Vincennes to Indianapolis in 1898.
The increase in Indiana's Catholic population that triggered the splitting of the Indianapolis diocese in 1944 also caused an increase in the need for Catholic schools. The only co-educational diocesian high school in Indianapolis, Scecina Memorial High School, was extremely popular following its opening in 1953. It was clear that one high school would not be sufficient to provide for Indianapolis' massively expanding Catholic population.
To this end, the Archbishop of Indianapolis, Paul Clarence Schulte, ordered the construction of three new Catholic high schools in the city. The first of these, Bishop Chatard, would serve the north side of Indianapolis. The two other new schools, Roncalli High School and Cardinal Ritter High School, would serve the south and west sides of Indianapolis respectively. Scecina would continue to serve the east side of the city.
Ground was broken for the first of the schools, Bishop Chatard, in the fall of 1960 on diocese property at the corner of Crittenden and Kessler Avenues. Construction of the school and an adjacent convent was completed in less than a year, and the first students were admitted in September, 1961.
Each year a class of students was added to the school, and the first graduating class was the class of 1964-65. Over the years, many improvements were made to the school facility as the number of students rose.
Initially, classes were taught almost entirely by priests from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Benedictine Sisters of Beech Grove. Many sisters were housed in the convent on-site, but their numbers declined to the point that in the 1970s, their convent was converted to an annex of the school. The annex has served as classroom, office and storage space for thirty years, and was recently rededicated to the Sisters as the St. Benedict Center.
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