The John Carroll School, established in 1964, is a private, independent, college-preparatory, co-educational Catholic school for grades 9–12, located on 87 acres (350,000 m2) in Bel Air, Maryland, USA, about 30 minutes' drive north of Baltimore, Maryland in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
The school is named after John Theodore Carroll, SJ, the first Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States—serving as the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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