Later, a tuition-free elementary school division opened to complement the college. Originally, until 1851, admission was granted to students ages 8 to 16. School closed on Thursdays and Sundays until 1917. Day schoolers came from all over the city, while boarders hailed from the Deep South, Mexico, and Cuba. Xavier College originally offered six years of integrated primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, in keeping with the Ratio Studiorum and the original Jesuit college in Messina, Sicily, predecessor to the University of Messina. The Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) took over the seminary in 1841, and the college was granted a 30-year state charter in 1842. In 1840, at the behest of Bishop Fenwick, the Society of Jesus began operating the Athenaeum's lay college, which it renamed St. The Athenaeum stood until 1890, next door to The Catholic Telegraph's printing press. Just a week later, the city's first public high school, Woodward College, opened its doors. It was the first Catholic institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory.
The institute, which included a seminary and lay college, was dedicated by the first bishop of Cincinnati, the Most Rev.
Xavier, once a part of Xavier University, traces its history to the Athenaeum at Seventh and Sycamore streets in Downtown Cincinnati. Francis Xavier Church, to the left, was altered by Samuel Hannaford & Sons to its present state after a fire in 1882. Xavier High School, 1860, in the enlarged Second Empire buildings by Anton and Louis Piket, which replaced the much smaller Athenaeum buildings of c.
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Xavier include numerous professional athletes, three Olympians, prominent state and national politicians, influential businessmen, and noted authors and actors. The Bombers football team and Aquabombers swimming and diving team have a national profile, appearing frequently at state championships and in national rankings. The high school moved to its present location in 1960. From 1869 to 1934, the high school program formed the lower division of St. It grew out of the Athenaeum, which opened in 1831 in downtown Cincinnati. Xavier is the oldest high school in the Cincinnati area and one of the oldest in the nation. It is the second-largest of the 35 all-male high schools run by the Society of Jesus in the United States. Xavier is the second-largest private school in Ohio and one of the 100 largest schools in the state, with 1,514 enrolled students as of the 2018–19 school year. Aside from colleges and universities, St. The independent, non-diocesan school is operated by the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus as one of four all-male Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. X) is a private, college-preparatory high school just outside the Cincinnati city limits, in the Finneytown neighborhood of Springfield Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Saint Xavier High School ( / ˈ z eɪ v j ər/ ZAY-vyər often abbreviated St. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati ĪdvancED, Ohio Catholic School Accrediting Association