St. John's Preparatory School (Danvers, Massachusetts)
St. John's Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory school for young men in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school was founded in 1907 by the Xaverian Brothers, an order named for St. Francis Xavier founded by Theodore James Ryken in 1839. St. John's was formerly a combination commuter-boarding school school but ended its residential program in 1975. It serves a geographically diverse body of students primarily from the North Shore, Merrimack Valley, southern New Hampshire, and the northern region of the Boston metropolitan area.
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