Holy Cross High School (Connecticut)
| Holy Cross High School | |
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"Our Only Hope"
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587 Oronoke Road Waterbury, Connecticut, (New Haven County) 06708 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°31′52″N 73°3′54″W / 41.53111°N 73.06500°WCoordinates: 41°31′52″N 73°3′54″W / 41.53111°N 73.06500°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Coeducational |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1968 |
| Founder | Basil Moreau |
| Status | Active |
| President | Frank Samuelson |
| Principal | Margaret Leger |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 500 (2015) |
| Average class size | 21 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Campus size | 37 acres (including playing fields and XC course) |
| Color(s) | Green and Gold |
| Slogan | "Educating Hearts and Minds since 1968" |
| Athletics conference | Naugatuck Valley League |
| Team name | Crusaders |
| Accreditation | New England Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Publication | CrossWords |
| Communities served | Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott, Naugatuck, Newtown, Prospect, Woodbury, Middlebury, Oxford, Beacon Falls, Cheshire, Southington, Southbury, Torrington, Litchfield, Roxbury, Thomaston, Derby, Ansonia, Seymour |
| Website | holycrosshs-ct.com |
Holy Cross High School is a Catholic secondary school founded in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1968 by the Congregation of Holy Cross. It is the largest Catholic secondary school in Connecticut, situated on thirty-seven acres in the West End of Waterbury, Connecticut, accessible via Route 8 and I-84. It is not part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
Holy Cross has a total enrollment of 500 students and an average class size of 125. Originally an all-boys institution, it became co-educational in 1975 when it merged with the Waterbury Catholic High School, an all-girls school. The Holy Cross High School campus maintains a campus-wide wi-fi signal; a computer-equipped, Internet-connected library; a large instrumental and choral music room with adjacent practice rooms; science labs; a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art foreign language lab; a guidance complex; a 750-seat tiered auditorium; a full-service cafeteria; a gymnasium; the Stephen J. Ross Fitness Center; and state-of-the-art digital classrooms and art studios in the recently constructed two-million-dollar Alex Family Gallery Art and Technology Center.
The school's founding faculty (1968) included among others, Brother John McGovern, first band director of the school, who became Academic Vice Principal in 1972 prior to his leaving for New York to lead Holy Cross High School, Flushing. In 1989 McGovern returned to the CT area to become Superintendent of Schools of the Archdiocese of Hartford.
Admission to the school is competitive, requiring a 3.5 hour placement test, a transcript from the applicant's grammar school, a letter of recommendation, and an essay.
Holy Cross scholarships and financial aid to those that qualify. Applicants may be eligible for merit scholarships if they score within the top 10%. Scholarships are usually renewable yearly. Once admitted, students have the opportunity to take proficiency tests in mathematics and/or foreign language to advance their freshman year placing (Ex. A student may take the Spanish proficiency exam to place him/herself out of Spanish 1 CP and into Spanish 2 Honors or even Spanish 3 Honors). Financial aid is also given to those in need in the form of grants. Holy Cross also has an installment program so that parents can pay tuition in increments over the academic year.
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