Ranking of Top Catholic High Schools in NYC area
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jerseyshorejohnny
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Thanks for sharing
FWIW.......My wife graduated from Holy Angels and my niece is a senior at Oak Knoll
Except for Regis, these schools are not cheap by any means.
FWIW.......My wife graduated from Holy Angels and my niece is a senior at Oak Knoll
Except for Regis, these schools are not cheap by any means.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
. The tuition range for these other schools runs the gamut, from 10K to close to 40K. Some of the schools near the top of the list(Loyola, Sacred Heart, Marymount), while Catholic, are actually independent schools and run as private schools with tuitions in the 35K range. Interesting to see how some of these schools have morphed over the years from schools for working/middle-class families, in to schools that working class families can barely afford. Including my alma mater Xavier, which had an extremely affordable tuition back in the 70s when I attended, and now has a tuition approaching 20K per year. Not easy for a middle class family to ante up, especially a family with more than one child in school.jerseyshorejohnny
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My sister has 4 sons.
In a perfect world she would have sent all 4 to CBA in Lincroft but it was just too expensive and as a result they all went to the local public high school.
That said, her oldest just graduated from Johns Hopkins, her second is a junior at Georgia Tech, her third is starting Marist and her youngest is a high school senior who aspires to attend Rice.
In a perfect world she would have sent all 4 to CBA in Lincroft but it was just too expensive and as a result they all went to the local public high school.
That said, her oldest just graduated from Johns Hopkins, her second is a junior at Georgia Tech, her third is starting Marist and her youngest is a high school senior who aspires to attend Rice.
jerseyshorejohnny
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FWIW... Delbarton's 2015 college selections (2016 not available, as of yet, on their web site):
great to be a member of the school at the top of the list.... Regis is a great place as is all of the other schools on the list. Interesting to see the disparity in cost in some of these places.... from free to over 40k a year.
I will try and see if i can get the Regis college list up here as well.
I will try and see if i can get the Regis college list up here as well.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
My daughter just graduated from Marymount. Great school but not sure I would classify as Catholic. It is an independent school and Tuition is more like 45k. Can't claim to be a Catholic school and charge that much. Same for Sacred Heart.
Xavier is an excellent school and even though the tuition is around 18,500 they do have an excellent honors program called the Ignation Scholars and if you get in tuition is practically free.
Regis is the golden ticket for Catholics. Great school. Wish they had a female version of Regis for girls.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
My daughter just graduated from Marymount. Great school but not sure I would classify as Catholic. It is an independent school and Tuition is more like 45k. Can't claim to be a Catholic school and charge that much. Same for Sacred Heart.
Xavier is an excellent school and even though the tuition is around 18,500 they do have an excellent honors program called the Ignation Scholars and if you get in tuition is practically free.
Regis is the golden ticket for Catholics. Great school. Wish they had a female version of Regis for girls.
Agree that neither Marymount nor Sacred Heart are really Catholic any longer, although Loyola is undoubtedly still very much Catholic. My daughter just graduated from there. Didn't realize that the tuition was up around 45K at MM and SC. FWIW, I have heard many Manhattan parents lament the fact that there is not even a Xavier for girls in Manhattan. It's either MM or SC for girls. Dominican a viable option academically, but not much in term of facilities or extracurricular activities.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
My daughter just graduated from Marymount. Great school but not sure I would classify as Catholic. It is an independent school and Tuition is more like 45k. Can't claim to be a Catholic school and charge that much. Same for Sacred Heart.
Xavier is an excellent school and even though the tuition is around 18,500 they do have an excellent honors program called the Ignation Scholars and if you get in tuition is practically free.
Regis is the golden ticket for Catholics. Great school. Wish they had a female version of Regis for girls.
Agree that neither Marymount nor Sacred Heart are really Catholic any longer, although Loyola is undoubtedly still very much Catholic. My daughter just graduated from there. Didn't realize that the tuition was up around 45K at MM and SC. FWIW, I have heard many Manhattan parents lament the fact that there is not even a Xavier for girls in Manhattan. It's either MM or SC for girls. Dominican a viable option academically, but not much in term of facilities or extracurricular activities.
Excellent point about not a lot of options for girls if they want affordable Catholic. I guess you could also throw in St Vincent Ferrer with Dominican. Dominican and St Vincent Ferrer should combine schools. They could probably improve their facilities with a joint venture.
By the way I think Loyola has the best college guidance counselors in NYC. They do a great job of placing kids at top schools. My kids all went to St Ignatius Loyola around the block so I'm very familiar with Loyola. I think I know most of the kids there since half come from St Ignatius.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
My daughter just graduated from Marymount. Great school but not sure I would classify as Catholic. It is an independent school and Tuition is more like 45k. Can't claim to be a Catholic school and charge that much. Same for Sacred Heart.
Xavier is an excellent school and even though the tuition is around 18,500 they do have an excellent honors program called the Ignation Scholars and if you get in tuition is practically free.
Regis is the golden ticket for Catholics. Great school. Wish they had a female version of Regis for girls.
Agree that neither Marymount nor Sacred Heart are really Catholic any longer, although Loyola is undoubtedly still very much Catholic. My daughter just graduated from there. Didn't realize that the tuition was up around 45K at MM and SC. FWIW, I have heard many Manhattan parents lament the fact that there is not even a Xavier for girls in Manhattan. It's either MM or SC for girls. Dominican a viable option academically, but not much in term of facilities or extracurricular activities.
Excellent point about not a lot of options for girls if they want affordable Catholic. I guess you could also throw in St Vincent Ferrer with Dominican. Dominican and St Vincent Ferrer should combine schools. They could probably improve their facilities with a joint venture.
By the way I think Loyola has the best college guidance counselors in NYC. They do a great job of placing kids at top schools. My kids all went to St Ignatius Loyola around the block so I'm very familiar with Loyola. I think I know most of the kids there since half come from St Ignatius.
Agree that combining SVF and Dominican would be a great idea. Notre Dame probably the only other decent Catholic School option in Manhattan for girls. Neither SVF or ND are perceived as on a par with Xavier, my Alma Mater. Also agree that Tom Hanley and staff at Loyola do a great job of placing kids in top colleges. In hindsight, Loyola was the perfect fit for my daughter. She attended La Scoula d'Italia(pre-k to 5th grade) then Epiphany and has a few of her former classmates who graduated with your daughter at MM.
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There is no doubt that Regis, due to their free tuition, and very highly structured selection process and marketing attempts to reach all corners of the metro area, attracts the best students top to bottom.
Like Monte, my son went to Xavier, where he was part of the Ignatian scholars program. I would say that the top end of Xavier compares very well to Regis grads. It's interesting that Chaminade isn't as high on the list as they would like to have been.
My son applied to Regis, and we were told that part of the reason he wasn't accepted was that although his exam score was in their accepted range, Kellenberg's Latin school refused to recommend him because he had left there after the 7th grade. The vindictive nature of that school annoys me to no end. When he applied to Catholic high schools, he did put Kellenberg down as a second or third LI choice and they rejected him despite very good grades there in the 7th grade because he opted to go back to public school for the 8th.
All in all a lot of very good schools on this list, and it speaks well for Catholic secondary education. On Long Island at least, some parents will opt out of some very good public high schools to send their kids to a Catholic HS.
Cathollc High schools worked well for my kids, with 2 Villanova grads and a Boston College student. Of course there are some really great public colleges that are often mentioned on here, but Catholic HS educations, and especially a Xavier education, worked well for my kids.
I don't think my son would have traded his Xavier experience for any school on that list. They have built a great community among active students and have a generous and involved alumni. You can't rate the atmosphere of a school easily, but I think Monte would agree that Xavier is a great school.
Like Monte, my son went to Xavier, where he was part of the Ignatian scholars program. I would say that the top end of Xavier compares very well to Regis grads. It's interesting that Chaminade isn't as high on the list as they would like to have been.
My son applied to Regis, and we were told that part of the reason he wasn't accepted was that although his exam score was in their accepted range, Kellenberg's Latin school refused to recommend him because he had left there after the 7th grade. The vindictive nature of that school annoys me to no end. When he applied to Catholic high schools, he did put Kellenberg down as a second or third LI choice and they rejected him despite very good grades there in the 7th grade because he opted to go back to public school for the 8th.
All in all a lot of very good schools on this list, and it speaks well for Catholic secondary education. On Long Island at least, some parents will opt out of some very good public high schools to send their kids to a Catholic HS.
Cathollc High schools worked well for my kids, with 2 Villanova grads and a Boston College student. Of course there are some really great public colleges that are often mentioned on here, but Catholic HS educations, and especially a Xavier education, worked well for my kids.
I don't think my son would have traded his Xavier experience for any school on that list. They have built a great community among active students and have a generous and involved alumni. You can't rate the atmosphere of a school easily, but I think Monte would agree that Xavier is a great school.
Completely agree Beast. While no school is right for every kid, I can count on one hand the number of kids that I've ever known who have not been happy at Xavier. In most instances when a kid leaves Xavier it's because they probably should not have been there in the first place. I too am surprised that Chaminade is not higher up on the list. I was also surprised that Molloy was so low. Every school ranking has it's own set of criteria, but at the end of the day I think we have a pretty good sense of where the NYC schools should fall on the list of best NYC/Long Island Catholic schools.
L J S A
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I've been told that the quality of the teachers seems to have gone down a bit since I graduated Chaminade in 1989, but I find it hard to believe that they'd only be #21. I have to admit that I wasn't overly impressed with the list of college choices in the latest Chaminade News that arrived yesterday.
Tough to beat that free Regis education afforded the select few
My daughter just graduated from Marymount. Great school but not sure I would classify as Catholic. It is an independent school and Tuition is more like 45k. Can't claim to be a Catholic school and charge that much. Same for Sacred Heart.
Xavier is an excellent school and even though the tuition is around 18,500 they do have an excellent honors program called the Ignation Scholars and if you get in tuition is practically free.
Regis is the golden ticket for Catholics. Great school. Wish they had a female version of Regis for girls.
Agree that neither Marymount nor Sacred Heart are really Catholic any longer, although Loyola is undoubtedly still very much Catholic. My daughter just graduated from there. Didn't realize that the tuition was up around 45K at MM and SC. FWIW, I have heard many Manhattan parents lament the fact that there is not even a Xavier for girls in Manhattan. It's either MM or SC for girls. Dominican a viable option academically, but not much in term of facilities or extracurricular activities.
Excellent point about not a lot of options for girls if they want affordable Catholic. I guess you could also throw in St Vincent Ferrer with Dominican. Dominican and St Vincent Ferrer should combine schools. They could probably improve their facilities with a joint venture.
By the way I think Loyola has the best college guidance counselors in NYC. They do a great job of placing kids at top schools. My kids all went to St Ignatius Loyola around the block so I'm very familiar with Loyola. I think I know most of the kids there since half come from St Ignatius.
Agree that combining SVF and Dominican would be a great idea. Notre Dame probably the only other decent Catholic School option in Manhattan for girls. Neither SVF or ND are perceived as on a par with Xavier, my Alma Mater. Also agree that Tom Hanley and staff at Loyola do a great job of placing kids in top colleges. In hindsight, Loyola was the perfect fit for my daughter. She attended La Scoula d'Italia(pre-k to 5th grade) then Epiphany and has a few of her former classmates who graduated with your daughter at MM.
One of my daughters best friends just graduated from Loyola. Funny that our kids probably know each other. Small world. Good luck to your daughter in college next year.
My older son goes to Fordham Prep. He doesn't have too many nice things to say about Xavier. Just kidding. He has lots of friends at Xavier and he certainly enjoys the rivalry with Xavier. Doesn't matter what the sport is, every game with Xavier is intense. I'm also surprised that Molloy isn't higher on the list. I'm originally from Queens and back in my day that was considered one of the top Catholic HS's.
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Molloy is an interesting study. Long recognized as a top Queens all boys school the reason they went co-ed in 2000 was declining academic prowess of students due in the part to the ever changing cultural changes in Queens. Their rationale was that if they admitted only the top 50% of boys and augmented it with girls, their academic standing would rise.
The rivalries among Jesuit high schools are intense but also for the most part respectful and friendly. IMO Jesuit schools treat young men like men, with high academic standards, expect mature responsible behavior and strict discipline. When exacting JUG, once it's over, it's forgotten - something that the Marianists and their ridiculous tally of demerits that carry over for 4 years. A cell phone violation is 5 demerits and expulsion occurs at 20 demerits. At 10 in the middle school, students are ineligible for national honor society - for as little as 2 benign infractions (wearing loafers with a tassel is a violation for example).
When my girls went to Sacred Heart Hempstead, the nuns for so old school that the school was pretty stagnant. A guy whose name is mentioned here often in negative veins finally convinced them to let him raise funds for improvements, and a new athletic field and beautified campus resulted.