Grades 7 and 8
On January 11, 2006, BC High announced the addition of a seventh and eighth grade to its high school program beginning in September 2007. These classes are conducted in the newly renovated Walsh building. These grades are in addition to the traditional 9-12 grade system and is known as the Arrupe Division. The name Arrupe comes from the late Father Pedro Arrupe, who was a missionary living on the outskirts of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. In the aftermath, he turned his novitiate into a hospital in order to provide any medical attention he could. The Arrupe Division offers a variety of classes. The language classes are a mirror image from the high school courses, excluding Ancient Greek.
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