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Each year, 99% of graduating seniors proceed to college; and receive over $1,000,000 [[USD]] in tuition aid from the various colleges of their choice.<ref>http://www.hendricken.com/Academics/tabid/470/Default.aspx</ref>
Each year, 99% of graduating seniors proceed to college; and receive over $1,000,000 [[USD]] in tuition aid from the various colleges of their choice.<ref>http://www.hendricken.com/Academics/tabid/470/Default.aspx</ref>


They win. Somehow..everytime
==Athletics==


Bishop Hendricken offers a comprehensive and excellent athletic program with a total of forty (40) teams in fourteen league and two club sports. The school is a member of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) and is the only school in the league to field teams in all 14 league sports at the highest level of competition offered by the league. In its pursuit of excellence, Hendricken has amassed a legendary record of success in athletics, winning over 256 Rhode Island state championships in each of the league sports in which its student-athletes have participated over the past 32 years.<ref>http://www.hendricken.com/Athletics/tabid/473/Default.aspx</ref><ref>http://www.rihssports.com/CHAMPIONSHIPS%20ORGANIZED/BY%20SCHOOL/SCHOOL%20TOTALS.htm</ref>
==Facilities==
==Facilities==



Revision as of 13:23, 10 January 2011

Bishop Thomas F. Hendricken High School
Bishop Hendricken High School seal
Address
2615 Warwick Avenue

,
 USA
Information
TypePrivate, All-Male
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
EstablishedSeptember, 1959
PresidentJohn A. Jackson
PrincipalJoseph J. Brennan
Faculty85 full-time
Enrollment950 (2008-2009)
Color(s)Green and Gold   
AthleticsFootball, Soccer, Volleyball, Cross-Country, Basketball, Hockey, Swimming, Wrestling, Indoor Track, Baseball, Outdoor Track, Tennis, Lacrosse, Golf, Rugby, Sailing
MascotHawk
AccreditationNew England Association of Schools and Colleges[1]
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Websitehttp://www.Hendricken.com

Bishop Thomas Francis Hendricken High School (or, Hendricken) is a Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school located in Warwick, Rhode Island, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.

Founded by the Brothers of the Holy Cross in 1959, and named in honor of the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence, Thomas Francis Hendricken, the school's present faculty is composed of both lay and religious individuals — specifically from the Congregation of Christian Brothers, who began staffing the school upon the Holy Cross Brothers' departure in 1971,[2] and the Sisters of Mercy.

The school's current president is John A. Jackson '71 and its principal is Joseph Brennan '72.


Academics

In line with its designation as a college preparatory institution, Hendricken offers rigorous instruction in the arts and sciences, as well as an extensive selection of Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

Top colleges such as Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, Holy Cross, and Boston College — among a host of other leading liberal arts colleges — accept Hendricken students each year. Hendricken has had many National Merit Scholars and one Rhodes Scholar (Craig Mullaney).

Each year, 99% of graduating seniors proceed to college; and receive over $1,000,000 USD in tuition aid from the various colleges of their choice.[3]

They win. Somehow..everytime

Facilities

In 1997 and early-1998, the school built a new 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) South Gymnasium; a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) outdoor street hockey/basketball area; a redesigned West Gate on Oakland Beach Avenue; and a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) west wing of classrooms.

In 2006, a new 350-seat theatre was erected, as were 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of new classrooms (all equipped with SmartBoard technology), and a new band suite. Also that year, the school installed state-of-the-art artificial turf on their football field, the first high school in Rhode Island to do so.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ NEASC-CIS. "NEASC-Commission on Independent Schools". Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  2. ^ http://www.hendricken.com/AboutBHHS/History/tabid/479/Default.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.hendricken.com/Academics/tabid/470/Default.aspx