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Holy Cross High School, New Orleans

Holy Cross High School
Holy Cross
Holy Cross School New Orleans Mar 2010.jpg
Address
5500 Paris Ave
New Orleans, Louisiana 70122
United States
Coordinates 30°0′50.17″N 90°4′32.39″W / 30.0139361°N 90.0756639°W / 30.0139361; -90.0756639Coordinates: 30°0′50.17″N 90°4′32.39″W / 30.0139361°N 90.0756639°W / 30.0139361; -90.0756639
Information
Type Private, All-Male
Motto Crux Spes Unica
The Cross Is Our Only Hope
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic,
Holy Cross
Patron saint(s) Saint Joseph
Established 1849
Founder Fr. Basil Moreau, CSC
School district Archdiocese of New Orleans
Superintendent Sister Kathleen Finnerty O.S.U.
Principal Joseph Murry
Headmaster Sean Martin
Chaplain Father Mike Mitchell
Grades K-12
Age range 4-18
Enrollment 995
Language English
Hours in school day 6.5
Campus size 18 acres (73,000 m2)
Campus type middle and high school
Color(s) Navy Blue and Old Gold         
Athletics LHSAA
Mascot Thunder the Tiger
Team name Tigers
Rival Jesuit Blue Jays
Chalmette Owls
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Average ACT scores 23
Newspaper The Bulletin
Tuition $9,500 including fees
Revenue 6,400,000
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Dean of Men Eric Desormeaux(8-12)Ronnie Kornick(5-7)
Director of Student Activities Eric Ferry
Admissions Director Brian Kitchen
Athletic Director Barry Wilson
I.T. Director Jerry Arnone, PMP,MCSE
Chief Financial Officer John Gerrets, CPA
Website

Holy Cross School is a high school and middle school founded in 1849 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main founder of Holy Cross is Blessed Father Basil Moreau, who was beatified on September 15, 2007. Holy Cross High was originally named St. Isidore's College. Holy Cross School is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.

In 1849 the Brothers, Priests and Sisters of Holy Cross arrived in New Orleans, after having established the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and took over an orphanage for the boys and girls who survived a plague. This orphanage, along with the first Ursuline School for Girls (the oldest Catholic School in America), was destroyed to make room for the 1923 Industrial Canal (the same Industrial Canal which experienced levee failures that flooded large parts of New Orleans twice, with Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005).

In 1871 Holy Cross moved to its historic site, which then was a farm named St. Isidore's farm, 4950 Dauphine Street, and built a renowned "collegiate-styled campus" and established in 1879 its current school, bordered by the high Mississippi River levee. This area has since become a Federal Historic District known as the "Holy Cross Historic District".

First chartered by the State of Louisiana in 1890, the name was changed to Holy Cross in 1895 when the present Administration Building was dedicated. A boarding program, which continued until 1973, attracted as many as 150 students annually from across the South as well as from Central and South America.≠

With Hurricane Katrina, the campus, like the majority of the city, was flooded by the Levee failures on the Industrial Canal and levee "over-topped" by storm surge along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) that destroyed St. Bernard Parish and Eastern New Orleans) and Greater New Orleans in August 2005. The school has relocated to 5500 Paris Avenue, the campuses of the former St. Francis Cabrini Parish and Redeemer-Seton High School on Paris Avenue between Filmore and Prentiss Avenue in the Gentilly/7th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. Demolition of the various structures which once stood has been completed. This is one of the many steps in the construction of the new location which is now Holy Cross High School. The state of the art high school, middle school, and administration building have been completed.


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