School Facts
- Opened on September 9, 1957
- 750 student enrollment in grades 7-12
- Over 9,500 alumni
- 10-acre (40,000 m2) campus in West Roxbury
- 12:1 student-faculty ratio
- 15 varsity sports, 48 athletic teams
- 75% faculty with or attaining graduate degrees, 4 Ph.D.'s on staff
- Over $1 million annually given in financial aid
- 35 after-school clubs and activities
- Over 90 cities and towns and 20 foreign countries from which students come to study
- $7.6 million in college scholarships and grants offered to 2009 graduating class
- 31 Honors and AP courses
- Clubs: Forensics, drama, chess, Yearbook, newspaper, recycling, art, broadcast journalism, and others.
- 95% of faculty coach or moderate extracurricular activities.
- Over 10 community service clubs that contribute hundreds of hours of service each year, with the Class of 2010 Senior Service Project contributing over 5,000 hours alone.
- Annual B.E.R.S.I. (Blessed Edmund Rice Solidarity Initiative) school trips are taken to El Salvador, Europe, Peru, Dominican Republic, and most recently South Korea and Canada.
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