Xavier College Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic Jesuit high school in Palm Desert, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino. Xavier College Prep is the first and only Catholic high school east of the Riverside/San Bernardino corridor and west of the Arizona border. It is also the first lay-built, Jesuit-endorsed high school of its kind and is associated with the six other Jesuit high schools in the state of California.
Xavier College Prep was established in 2006 with 48 freshman students. In 2009-2010 the first senior class graduated with 60 graduates, 100% of the senior graduates going to college. Currently, Xavier College Prep has over 525 students enrolled in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade, and a student to teacher ratio of 12:1. Tuition is $10,825, with 45% of students receiving need-based aid. The student profile for the school is 55% Female, 45% Male, and 48% Minority. Xavier admits students on the basis of their abilities to succeed in a college preparatory environment and retains only those who achieve a 2.00 grade point average or greater. The school does not rank its students. The criteria for the school's admission is that all students must submit an application, references, transcripts, a writing sample, and sit for the High School Placement Test(HSPT). Incoming students must also have an interview.,
Their sports teams are known as the Saints. All sports except football compete in the Desert Valley League.
The Saints' Cross Country team finished 5th for the boys and 6th for the girls in their respective Division 5 races at the 2010 CIF Cross Country State Finals in Fresno, California.
In 2011, the Xavier College Prep girls' cross country team were the first sport team from the school to earn a Desert Valley League title.
One of three Xavier College Preparatory High School graduates headed to Ivy League schools for the 2012-2013 academic school year, Adetola "Tola" Omilana, will have a spot on Harvard's Crimson football team when he heads to Boston this fall.
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“Surely one’s own—farewell to life is preferable to that demanded by the law.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill)
“Face your own ambivalence about letting go and you will be better able to help you children cope with their own feelings. The insight you gain through your own acceptance of change will bolster your confidence and make you a stronger college parent. The confidence you develop will be evident to your child, who will be able to move away from you without fear.”
—Norman Goddam (20th century)
“This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The academic expectations for a child just beginning school are minimal. You want your child to come to preschool feeling happy, reasonably secure, and eager to explore and learn.”
—Bettye M. Caldwell (20th century)