Xavier High School

Xavier High School is an all-boys Jesuit Catholic high school located in the diverse Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Submission of TACHS (Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools) results is the only requirement for admission. The school was first founded in 1847 as the College of St. Francis Xavier.

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An elite Jesuit Catholic preparatory school well established for its academic prowess, military tradition and service towards the city of New York. Xavier is well renowned for rigorously challenging its students in all academic subject fields, as well as teaching students to think freely and to live a life ?for others.?

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The culmination of four years of Jesuit training is at St. Patrick?s Cathedral, New York, N.Y., where graduation is commenced.

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The Xavier Regiment, or Corps of Cadets, annually marches in the St. Patrick?s and Columbus Day Parades. Though the military branch of the school is no longer required amongst its students, many find it to be one of the school?s most prevalent attributes.

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Xavier teaches students to live lives that positively affect others in society, especially the poor and downtrodden, through acts of Christian Service performed in the sophomore, junior and predominantly senior year of every class year.

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Xavier is well known for their strict disciplinary action, commonly referred to by students and faculty as ?JUG.? (Judgment Under God) ?JUG? constitutes a forced walk of students around the schools quad and is conducted in silence, usually after school.

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Xavier draws students from all five boroughs of New York City, Nassau County, New Jersey and even Westchester County. Xavier is joined by its three brother schools: Regis, Fordham Preparatory, and Loyola, as the only Jesuit high schools in New York City.

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¹ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 4, 1898, pg. 20

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