St. Viator High School
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1213 East Oakton Street Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°05′39″N 87°58′10″W / 42.09423°N 87.96944°WCoordinates: 42°05′39″N 87°58′10″W / 42.09423°N 87.96944°W |
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| Type | Private, Coeducational, secondary, parochial |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1961 |
| Founder | Fr. Louis Querbes |
| Oversight | Archdiocese of Chicago |
| President | Brian Liedlich |
| Chairperson | James Banaszak |
| Principal | Mrs. Eileen Manno |
| Staff | 118 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Campus size | 1.300 (2012) |
| Campus type | suburban |
| Color(s) |
navy white |
| Fight song | Ye Fighting Men of Viator |
| Athletics conference | East Suburban Catholic Conference |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Team name | Lions |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Average ACT scores | 26.3 |
| Publication | ROAR (literary magazine) |
| Newspaper | Viator Voice |
| Yearbook | Viatome |
| Tuition | US$12,324 |
| Affiliation | Clerics of Saint Viator |
| Website | www |
St. Viator High School is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It serves as a college preparatory school with students from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Part of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the school is run by the Clerics of Saint Viator.
The Archdiocese of Chicago reallocated some land it had already owned — tentatively designated for a future cemetery — for educational purposes, and assigned the Clerics of St. Viator to build and run a boys' secondary school. It opened in 1961 to a small class of freshmen and a few sophomores, graduating its first class in 1965.
Enrollments waxed and waned over the next few decades. Faced with declining numbers in 1987, the choice was made to merge with Sacred Heart of Mary High School of Rolling Meadows, with which St. Viator already had a sister-school relationship. The merger was effected in the summer of 1987; St. Viator absorbed the faculty, staff, and student body of Sacred Heart beginning with the 1987–88 school year, and admitted a co-educational freshman class (the class of 1991).
The physical plant remained largely unchanged from its original 1961 footprint. A co—educational student population required the construction of a girls' locker room. This kicked off a string of renovations to occur throughout the 1990s, including a renovation of the boys' locker room, the chapel, and science labs. After a major capital campaign, the school constructed a multipurpose athletic addition, and the Boler Center was dedicated in summer of 2005.
Since 2007, St. Viator High School has used hair samples to test each of its 1,000 students for drugs in the fall and then conduct random screens during the rest of the school year. Starting in 2013, the school will also test for alcohol. Private schools have broader legal authority to test students for illegal substances than their public counterparts. And while a few area public high schools do conduct drug testing, the practice is limited to teens in sports or other extracurricular activities. Yet even among private schools, testing students' hair for alcohol use appears to be particularly rare. The testing company, Massachusetts-based Psychemedics Corp., said St. Viator is among a handful nationwide using the company's new hair test for alcohol. At St. Viator, students are notified of their mandatory testing appointments on the morning of the test. At lunchtime, a school official snips off a sample of about 60 hairs from the crown of each chosen student's head. The alcohol test measures ethyl glucuronide, or EtG, to indicate alcohol consumption in the previous three months. The tests take about a week to process and are capable of indicating a minimum average consumption of two to three drinks per week. Students who test positive must attend a meeting with their parents, counselor and the school president. After 100 days, the student must pay about $85 for another test, and a second positive could lead to expulsion. Private schools can in general mandate drug and alcohol tests at their own discretion.
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