Saint Peter's Preparatory High School
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| Address | |
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144 Grand Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′57″N 74°2′24″W / 40.71583°N 74.04000°WCoordinates: 40°42′57″N 74°2′24″W / 40.71583°N 74.04000°W |
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| Type | Private, Day, College-prep |
| Motto |
Sub Umbra Petri (Under the Shadow of Peter) |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Roman Catholic (Jesuit) |
| Established | 1872 |
| School code | 310645 |
| President | Rev. Kenneth J. Boller, S.J. |
| Dean | John Morris |
| Principal | James DeAngelo '85 |
| Vice principal | Robert Furlong |
| Dean of Student Life | Anthony Locricchio, '96 |
| Faculty | 93.8 FTEs |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 935 (as of 2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.0:1 |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Maroon and White |
| Slogan | "Men for Others" |
| Song | "Pride and Glory" to the tune of "It's an Old-fashioned Garden" |
| Fight song | "A Peter's Team" to the tune of "It's a Grand Old Flag" |
| Athletics conference | Hudson County Interscholastic League |
| Team name | Marauders |
| Accreditation | New Jersey Association of Independent Schools |
| Average SAT scores | 1731 |
| Average ACT scores | 27 |
| Publication | Literama (literary magazine) |
| Newspaper | Petroc |
| Yearbook | Petrean |
| Endowment | $51 million |
| Tuition | $16,300 |
| Vice President of Finance | John Caulfield, '71, P'00,'03 |
| Chief Advancement Officer | Christopher Casazza, '97 |
| Vice President for Planning and Principle Giving | James Horan '70 |
| Director of Admissions | John Irvine '83 P'11 |
| Director of Athletics | Rich Hansen P'03, '09 |
| Director of Campus Ministry | John Dougherty |
| Website | school website |
Saint Peter's Preparatory School (called "St. Peter's Prep") is a private, all-male, Jesuit, college-preparatory school located in Jersey City, New Jersey, within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. The Society of Jesus founded the school in 1872 and today the school is operated as part of the Jesuits' New York Province. The school has been accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
Students are enrolled from counties in Central and Northern New Jersey, as well as from nearby New York City. The school has a faculty of 72, made up of 5 Jesuits, 62 lay teachers, and six counselors three of whom work on college placement. Tuition for the 2015-16 school year is $15,100.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 935 students and 93.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The school's student body was 63.4% White, 9.8% Black, 12.5% Hispanic, 9.7% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander and 4.4% two or more races.
Saint Peter's Prep was founded in the Paulus Hook section of Jersey City as one department within Saint Peter's College (now Saint Peter's University) by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 3, 1872. Along with the Preparatory department were the Collegiate and Grammar departments. As a school for young men, Saint Peter's opened in September 1878 with seventy-one students in the Preparatory department. Academic degrees were first conferred in June 1889. At this time the only building on the campus was Shalloe Hall at 144 Grand Street. Mulry Hall, on the corner of Grand and Warren Streets, was built around the turn of the century as a local social club, before being acquired by the school.
In 1918 Jesuit Superiors decided to close the College division in order to focus more attention on other Universities in the Northeast. It remained closed until 1930; during this time, however, the Preparatory division remained open. The College division reopened in another location in 1930 and in 1936 settled at its current location. The College and Preparatory departments were officially incorporated separately on February 10, 1955. Although Saint Peter's College has not been located at 144 Grand for over eighty years, at an entrance to the original building, Shalloe Hall, a window pane above the door still reads "Saint Peter's College."
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