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Joe Glenn, football player and coach [9]; Michael Helman, Major League Baseball player [10]; Alexis Markowski, basketball player [11]; Tyler Polak, soccer player [12]; Brandon Teena, transgender man whose 1993 murder was memorialized in the film Boys Don't Cry; attended Pius X but was expelled in his senior year [13]
Annual tuition is $18,000 for active Catholics and $20,000 for non-active or non-Catholics. St. Pius X makes available a limited amount of financial aid to families in need via a work study program. The maximum amount of aid available per student is 70% of the Active Catholic tuition rate. [5]
Students in grades 7 through 11 were forced to transfer to other nearby public or private schools following Pius X's closure. [ 4 ] According to a statement released by the diocese, enrollment at Pius X had declined by nearly 43 percent with estimates for the coming year projecting a further decline to 150 students.
St. Pius X High School was founded by the Dominican Sisters of Houston in 1956. The school was named in honor of Pope Pius X, who was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1954.
The student was able to enlarge his or her spectrum of learning with greater ease and efficiency, benefiting more from education. In March 1995 the Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced a school realignment transforming Pius X, a co-ed school, into a co-institutional high school with all-girl St. Matthias High School .
St. Pius X Catholic High School opened in 1956. The student body is composed of ninth through twelfth-grade students. The school is adjacent to St. Patrick Parish & School off of Interstate 29. The school's current principal is Joe Monachino Jr.
St. Pius High School has a student body that slightly mirrors the ethnic makeup of Albuquerque. 55% Hispanic, 40% White, 5% Native American, 1% African American and 3% Asian. Though the vast majority of students at St. Pius X are Catholic, the school is open to students of all faiths, offering a college prep education, along with total ...
The mascot was a winged lion, the symbol of St. Mark. The Middlestates Association of Colleges and Schools accredited St. Pius X and students attended the school from 10 Catholic grade schools and 19 Catholic parishes along with 10 public school districts. [citation needed]