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At the outset of the 2020/21 academic year, the archdiocese ran 160 elementary schools and three high schools. An additional eight Catholic elementary schools and 28 Catholic high schools that are not archdiocesan-run are located within the Archdiocese of Chicago. [3] As of 2015, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools is Jim Rigg, Ph.D. [1]
Sacred Heart Schools (Chicago, Illinois) St. Benedict High School (Chicago, Illinois) St. Dorothy School; St. Edward's Parish (Chicago) St. Francis de Sales High School (Chicago, Illinois) St. Ignatius College Prep; St. Patrick High School (Chicago) St. Rita of Cascia High School
"THE HIGH SCHOOL AS AN ADOLESCENT-RAISING INSTITUTION: AN INNER HISTORY OF CHICAGO PUBLIC SECONDARY EDUCATION, 1856–1940" (PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1978; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1978. T-26947). Herrick, Mary J. The Chicago schools: a social and political history (1971) online the major scholarly history. Hogan, David.
The school was founded in Chicago in 1869 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Dutch missionary to the United States. Saint Ignatius College Prep is Chicago’s flagship Jesuit high school and one of the preeminent Catholic college preparatory schools in the United States.
In the 1950s, the southwest side of Chicago needed a Catholic girls' school to serve a fast-growing population. In 1956 "the Academy" relocated once again. Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School and St. Xavier College opened in the fall of 1956 to serve secondary and post secondary women students respectively.
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[23] [24] In 1855, the Sisters of the Holy Cross founded an industrial school in Chicago for girls, both Catholic and non-Catholic. [ 15 ] Frustrated by the opposition he faced in the diocese, O'Regan submitted his resignation in 1857 to the Vatican, which accepted it in June 1858. [ 25 ]
There was a small Catholic population in the English colonies, chiefly in Maryland. It supported local schools, often under Jesuit auspices. The Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Black order of nuns, pioneered in educating Black children in the area, founding St. Frances Academy in 1828 (the first and oldest Black Catholic school in the US).