Savio Preparatory High School
| St. Dominic Savio Preparatory High School | |
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145 Byron Street East Boston, Massachusetts 02128 United States |
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| School type | High school |
| Motto | Potius Moria Quam Foedari (Death before Dishonor) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic, Salesians of Don Bosco |
| Patron saint(s) | St. Dominic Savio |
| Established | 1958 |
| Founder | Fr. Joseph Caselli, S.D.B. |
| Status | Defunct |
| Closed | 2007 |
| School district | Archdiocese of Boston |
| Principal | Anders Peterson (2007) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Gender | Male only (1958-1993), coeducational (1993-2007) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 1:14 (2001) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Maroon and gold |
| Sports | Baseball, Cross Country, Basketball, Hockey, Track |
| Nickname | Dom Savio |
| Team name | Spartans |
| Newspaper | The Spartan Forum |
| Yearbook | The Spartan |
| Website | http://www.savioprep.org/ |
St. Dominic Savio Preparatory High School, formerly St. Dominic Savio High School, was a Roman Catholic high school located in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1958 and closed in 2007.
The school was founded as an all-boys school in 1958 by the Salesians of Don Bosco, a Catholic religious order. It was called St. Dominic Savio High School and served predominantly blue-collar Italian American and Irish American families in East Boston, Revere, Winthrop, and Chelsea.
Enrollment grew until the late 1970s, with peak at about 440 students. Those years saw a variety of new clubs and sports spring up. An alumnus, Paul Abbott, recalled a day when the student body voted on whether the school should add football or hockey as a new sport:
"It was 1970, the Bobby Orr era in Boston, so we chose hockey."
In the 80s, the school suffered from decreasing enrollment and rising costs, partially due to an aging campus and shrinking pool of low-salaried Salesians, leading to increasing dependence on more expensive lay teachers.
At the end of the 1992-1993 school year, as part of a continual process to cut back on services due to a decrease in the number of priests and brothers, the Salesians announced that the school would be closing, a revelation that caused an uproar in the community. The decline made it harder to keep up facilities, and an increase in costs in areas such as healthcare needed to take care of an aging priest population.
A group of alumnilead by Peter J Bagley, 75 stepped in and eventually the Salesians agreed to cede control of the school to the group, initially with no charge for property rental. In September 1993, St. Dominic Savio High was reincarnated as Savio Preparatory High School. Though there was no gap between the Salesians administering the school and the alumni taking over, the period of indecision that preceded the change saw many faculty members and students relocate to other schools. Savio became coeducational in an effort to increase enrollment.
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