Holy Cross High School (Connecticut)
Holy Cross High School is a Catholic secondary school founded in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1968 by the Congregation of Holy Cross. Presently, Holy Cross is the largest Catholic secondary school in Connecticut, situated on thirty seven acres in the West End of Waterbury, Connecticut, accessible via Route 8 and I-84. It is not part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
Holy Cross has a total enrollment of just over 700 students and an average class size of 170 students. Originally an all-boys institution, it became co-educational in 1975 when it merged with the Waterbury Catholic High School, an all-girls school. The Holy Cross High School campus maintains a campus eclipsing Wi-Fi signal, a computer-equipped, Internet-connected library, a large instrumental and choral music room with adjacent practice rooms, science labs, a multimillion dollar state-of-the-art foreign language lab, a guidance complex, a 750-seat tiered auditorium, a full-service cafeteria, a gymnasium, the Stephen J. Ross Fitness Center, and state-of-the-art digital classrooms and art studios in a recently constructed two million dollar Alex Family Gallery Art and Technology Center.
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