St. Michael's High School
| St. Michael's High School | |
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| Address | |
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100 Siringo Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type |
Private, coeducational high school |
| Motto | Enter to learn, leave to serve. |
| Established | 1859 (chartered 1874) |
| President | Taylor Gantt |
| Principal | Sam Govea |
| Enrollment | 600 (7-12) |
| Campus | Suburban, 25 acres |
| Color(s) |
Light Navy and White |
| Athletics conference | NMAA, AAA Dist. 5 |
| Mascot | Horsemen |
| Rival |
St. Pius X High School Santa Fe Indian School Santa Fe High School |
| Website | www |
St. Michael's High School is a private Catholic junior/senior high school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is privately run under the auspices of the international Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, better known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers.
St. Michael's teaches grades 7 through 12 and has an enrollment of approximately 600 students. The school has a president/principal structure and is overseen by a Board of Trustees. The school operates on a trimester schedule.
St. Michael's High School was founded in 1859 as El Colegio de San Miguel in an adobe hut next to the San Miguel Mission on Old Santa Fe Trail, just east of the current state capitol building. In 1968 it moved to its current location at 100 Siringo Road in Santa Fe and became co-educational upon the closing of the Loretto Academy for Girls. Prior to the construction of the school at its Siringo Road location, the high school took on boarders from New Mexico and other states.
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first bishop and archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, recruited four Christian Brothers from his native France to establish the school. Brothers Hilarien, Gondulph, Geramius and Galmier Joseph arrived on October 27, 1859, after two and a half months of travel by ship, train and covered wagon. In 1870, the school nearly closed due to financial hardship and falling morale of the Brothers and students. Brother Peter J. Schneider, known as Brother Botulph, arrived to open a novitiate to train local student Brothers and recruit more Brothers to Santa Fe. In 1874, the territorial legislature granted the school a charter as the College of the Christian Brothers of New Mexico. In 1876, St. Michael's conferred diplomas on its first graduates.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the school's science labs were remodeled, the school's first gymnasium, financed by alumni donations, was constructed, and athletic teams began competing in New Mexico's interscholastic sports program. After World War I, the college program was dropped due to financial concerns.
Since 1967 there has been a gradual but steady increase in the number of lay teachers at St. Michael's, as the Brothers grow older and retire. In 1988, St. Michael's admitted its first lay person to the Board of Trustees and soon after hired its first lay, and first female, principal.
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