Guerin College Preparatory High School

Guerin College Preparatory
High School
Address
8001 West Belmont Avenue
River Grove, Illinois, 60171
United States
Information
Type private, secondary, parochial
Motto Love ∙ Mercy ∙ Justice
Denomination Roman Catholic
Established 2004
Opened 1962 & 1961
Oversight Archdiocese of Chicago
President Janet Cobb
Grades 912
Gender coed
Enrollment 510  (2011)
Student to teacher ratio 17:1
Campus type suburban
Color(s) Blue, Green and Silver             
Slogan Exceed your expectations
Athletics conference Chicago Catholic League (m)
Girls Catholic Athletic Conference (f)
Team name Gators
Accreditation(s) North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[1]
Newspaper 'Voyager'
Yearbook 'Traces'
Tuition US$8,800[2]
Affiliation Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Website

Guerin College Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in River Grove, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

Guerin was established in 1962 as Mother Theodore Guerin High School, an all-girls school, by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The sisters named the school after their congregation's foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. The school was renamed Guerin College Preparatory High School[3] when it became coeducational in 2004 and absorbed the students from the all-male Holy Cross High School after that school closed.[4] Holy Cross High School had been opened in 1961.

Athletics

The Guerin Gators are currently members of two athletic conferences. Men compete as a member of the Chicago Catholic League, while the women compete in the Girls Catholic Athletic Association. The 2008–09 season will be the school's last year as members of these conferences, as the school will be joining the new Suburban Christian Conference in 2009.[5]

The school also competes in state championship tournaments sponsored by the Illinois High School Association.

The school sponsors interscholastic sports teams for both men and women in basketball, cross country, soccer, golf, and track & field. The school sponsors teams for men in baseball, football, golf, and wrestling, while there are teams for women in softball and volleyball.[6]

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