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An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [ 1 ] A wave of school closures after the 2014-2015 school year caused over 200 employees to change jobs and over 1,200 pupils to change schools.
Academic dress has a history in the United States going back to the colonial colleges era. It has been most influenced by the academic dress traditions of Europe. There is an Inter-Collegiate Code that sets out a detailed uniform scheme of academic regalia that is voluntarily followed by many, though not all institutions entirely adhere to it.
The new plan called for the first school to accept coed classes until the boys' school was ready, about four years after the school for women was open. The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois agreed to oversee and staff the new school in 1955. Ground breaking occurred on January 6, 1957, and the school opened in September, 1958.
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A second Chicago Heights high school, Bloom Trail, was established in 1976 to offset overcrowding. [4] Since 1995, however, Bloom and Bloom Trail have shared the same sports programs, drawing from over 3,000 students [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in grades 9 to 12 .
Flossmoor School District 161 is a school district headquartered in Chicago Heights, Illinois, in the Chicago metropolitan area. [2] It serves Chicago Heights and Flossmoor. [3] Homewood-Flossmoor High School is separate, controlled by its own school district.
Fenwick High School was founded as an all-boys college preparatory high school in 1929 by the Catholic Order of Dominican Fathers and Brothers of the Province of St. Joseph. Since its founding, Fenwick has maintained a strict dress code which includes slacks, dress shirts and ties for the boys and plaid skirts for the girls. During assemblies ...
In 1953, School District 170 served 2,833 students, and in 2004 the district served 3,550 students. [citation needed] Dollie Helsel retired as superintendent in 2007. Tom Amadio, an alumnus of Bloom High School and formerly the assistant superintendent of Chicago Heights district, became the superintendent in 2007. [2]