Loyola Academy
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1100 Laramie Avenue Wilmette, Illinois 60091 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°5′1″N 87°45′39″W / 42.08361°N 87.76083°WCoordinates: 42°5′1″N 87°45′39″W / 42.08361°N 87.76083°W |
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| School type | Private, parochial, secondary |
| Motto | Women and Men for Others |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1909 |
| Authority | Archdiocese of Chicago |
| Oversight | Jesuits |
| CEEB code | 144403 |
| President | Rev. Patrick E. McGrath, SJ |
| Principal | Dr. Kathryn Baal |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) |
Maroon Gold |
| Athletics conference |
Chicago Catholic League Girls Catholic Athletic (GCAC) |
| Team name | Ramblers |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Publication | Menagerie Arts |
| Newspaper | The Prep |
| Yearbook | The Year |
| Affiliation | Jesuit Secondary Education Association |
| Website | goramblers.org |
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Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school, located in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. It is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association and the largest Jesuit high school in America, with over 2,000 students from more than 80 different zip codes throughout the Chicago area.
Loyola Academy was founded as a Roman Catholic, Jesuit, college preparatory school for young men in 1909. The school was originally located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, on the campus of Loyola University Chicago's Dumbach Hall; it moved to the current Wilmette campus in 1957. Both Loyola University and its prep school adjunct, Loyola Academy, grew out of St. Ignatius College Prep, a Roman Catholic, Jesuit college preparatory school in Chicago that was founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, with both university and preparatory programs for young men. While St. Ignatius transitioned to being solely a preparatory school and remained in the same location, Loyola Academy and University were established in Rogers Park. All three institutions were named after the Basque intellectual and Spanish Army General, St. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuits.
As a precondition to granting approval to move to the suburbs, the Archdiocese of Chicago required the Jesuits to stipulate that they would continue to serve the young Roman Catholic men of the city of Chicago. Consequently, Loyola Academy has had a significant representation of Chicago residents of various financial means, giving the school an economic diversity fairly unique in the Chicago area. This as achieved through the use of various scholarships and forms of financial aid.
Loyola Academy maintained the strict disciplinary and academic regimen seen in most of the exclusive American prep schools during the bulk of its history. Students were required to wear blazers and ties, maintain silence when moving between classes, attend weekly Mass on campus, address their teachers as either "sir" or "Father", and also maintain a demeanor befitting the Jesuit educational ideal of "Men for others."
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