John Bapst Memorial High School
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Bangor, Maine USA |
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| Coordinates | 44°48′19″N 68°46′07″W / 44.8053°N 68.7685°WCoordinates: 44°48′19″N 68°46′07″W / 44.8053°N 68.7685°W |
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| Type | Coeducational secondary |
| Motto | Integrity - Achievement - Respect |
| Established | 1928 |
| Head of School | Mel G. MacKay III |
| Faculty | 39 |
| Enrollment | 500 |
| Average class size | 18 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13:1 |
| Color(s) | Purple and White |
| Athletics | 17 interscholastic |
| Mascot | Crusader |
| Website | www.johnbapst.org |
John Bapst Memorial High School is a private, independent, college preparatory high school in Bangor, Maine, United States. It serves approximately 500 ninth through twelfth grade students from 50 different communities in the region. The majority of students who attend John Bapst Memorial High school come from the towns of Orrington, Glenburn, Veazie, Dedham, School Administrative District 63 (which includes the towns of Holden, Eddington, and Clifton), Milford, Bradley, and Orland. In 2011-2012 the school became a residential international school and now also serves approximately 50 international students from China, Vietnam, Korea, Kazakhstan, Spain, Germany, Austria, Albania, Egypt, and elsewhere.
Average SAT and AP score results are higher compared to national and state averages. The majority of students take at least one Advanced Placement examination; in an average year, 300 AP exams are taken by John Bapst students.
Founded on September 10, 1928, as a Catholic school as a result of overcrowding at St. John's School and Bangor Catholic High School for Girls, the school graduated its first class of girls in 1929. The school operated for four decades as a gender-specific educational environment: the school was bifurcated by the auditorium, with the north wing for boys, the south wing for girls. Later, due to fire safety codes, the rear parts of the auditorium were turned into the front hallways on the first and second stories which now connect the two wings of the original building.
In June 1980, the Diocese of Portland, Maine made the decision to close the school. It reopened the following fall as John Bapst Memorial High School, an independent, coeducational, nonreligious, college preparatory institution, for 193 students. This was championed by a small group of community members led by Joseph W. Sekera, an alumnus and the school's principal until 2002. In 1988, the institution purchased the building from the Diocese of Portland.
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