Iona Preparatory School
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255 Wilmot Road (Lower School: 173 Stratton Road) New Rochelle, New York, (Westchester County) 10804 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°57′50″N 73°47′37″W / 40.96389°N 73.79361°WCoordinates: 40°57′50″N 73°47′37″W / 40.96389°N 73.79361°W |
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| Type | Private, all-male |
| Motto | Estote Firmi (Be Strong) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1916 |
| Sister school | The Ursuline School |
| President | Br. Thomas Leto, CFC |
| Grades | K-12 |
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| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Maroon and Gold |
| Team name | Gaels |
| Rival | Fordham Prep |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Publication | Renaissance (literary magazine) |
| Newspaper | The Gael Force |
| Yearbook | Saga |
| Website | www.ionaprep.org |
Iona Preparatory School (commonly known as Iona Prep) is an independent, Roman Catholic, all-male, college preparatory school located in the north end of New Rochelle, New York, in suburban Westchester County. Iona Prep consists of the Upper School for grades 9 through 12 and the Lower School (that was formerly Iona Grammar School) for grades kindergarten through eight, which are located on separate and nearby campuses less than one mile apart on Stratton Road. Named for the Scottish island of Iona, the school was founded in 1916 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Iona is a privately owned independent school without parochial affiliation and is located within the Archdiocese of New York.
Iona Prep is the brother school to local Catholic girls' school The Ursuline School. It shares a history with nearby Iona College, which was founded 24 years after the Prep in 1940. The Prep and college shared a common campus at 715 North Avenue until the Upper School completed the move in 1968 to its current 27-acre campus. It includes the formerly separate K-8 Iona Grammar School, now the Iona Prep Lower School, which is located on a separate campus of 10 acres.
As of 2015, Iona Prep has an enrollment of 979 students, 771 in the Upper School and 208 in the Lower School. The Iona Prep Upper School maintains a student dress code that includes a dress shirt and tie with a blazer and dress slacks.
Upon invitation by Judge Martin J. Keogh, Iona Prep was founded in 1916 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers as The Iona School. Br. Joseph Ignatius Doorley—an educator from County Carlow, Ireland— served as the school's first principal. The institution was established as a Catholic school operated by the Irish Christian Brothers (as they were then known) to educate elementary and secondary school students. The founder of the Order of Christian Brothers, Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, remained a prominent figure in the school's educational vision. Iona derived its name from the small Scottish island of Iona, known for its Gaelic monasticism that dates back to the arrival in AD 563 of missionary and abbot St. Columba, an important individual in the Christian Brothers' guiding mission.
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