St. Joseph Catholic High School (Ogden, Utah)

Saint Joseph Catholic School is a parochial school in Utah, north of Salt Lake City. Established by the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Jesuit Fathers.

Academics

SJCHS offers 65 courses with a choice of electives and vocational classes, and 15 Advanced Placement courses.^[1] Saint Joseph was selected in 2014 as one of the top 60 most challenging private schools in America by the Washington Post.^[2]

St. Joseph Fine Arts Building

Athletics

Saint Joseph Catholic High Schools competes in Region 18 in the Utah High School Activities Association. It offers teams in volleyball, cross-country, cheer-leading, golf, basketball, basketball, cheer-leading, baseball, softball, tennis, soccer, drill and track.

Athletic facilities include a gymnasiums for basketball and volleyball, locker-rooms, weight room and soccer athletic field. The athletic teams are supported by a successful weight-lifting program. Student athletes have the option to take a weight-lifting and conditioning class as one of their eight classes in each of their four years of high school.

In its history, St. Joseph has won fifty two state championships. Saint Joseph has won for seven years in a row the Deseret Morning News' All-Sports Award giving to a school that excel in athletics. Deseret Morning News

Jayhawks Logo of Saint Joseph Catholic High School

Faith and Community

The school's spiritual life is fostered by a Director of Campus Ministry and supported by the area priests. Every day after second period, the school prays together. All students are asked to serve those in need through a Christian Service Internship—forty hours/year for upperclassmen—led by a Christian Service coordinator. Prayer before assemblies, before ball games and before classes is frequent. The intellectual life of faith is supported by theology classes, required each year of high school. www.stjosephutah.com/student-life/community-service

Student Body

24% of students belong to faiths other than Catholic. 74% percent of students are Caucasian, 14% are Hispanic, 6% are Asian, 3% are African Americans, 2% are Pacific Islanders, and 1% are American Indians.

History

Catholic education in Ogden began over one hundred and thirty years ago. Its beginnings can be traced to Saint Joseph Parish, which planned and organized a school in the old Saint Joseph Church in 1877. Classes began at Easter of that same year.

In 1881, Saint Joseph Schools moved to a new building at the corner of 26th and Washington, which was built for the purpose of housing the school and its programs. In 1923, Bishop Glass dedicated the new Saint Joseph Grade School, built on the corner of 28th and Lincoln. One hundred forty-seven students were enrolled at that time. Classes were held at this site until the fall of 1979. Saint Joseph Grade School then purchased the Quincy School from the Ogden Board of Education. The Quincy building on the corner of 30th and Quincy Avenue serves as the present location for preschool through eighth grade. In 1952, Saint Joseph Catholic High School was built in 1790 Lake street in Ogden and serves as the present location for ninth through twelve grade.

Saint Joseph Catholic Schools (SJCS) serves nine parishes and missions in the greater Ogden area and is the only Catholic elementary school in Ogden. St. Joseph History

Notes and references

External links

• Official site

Diocese of Salt Lake City Bishops Ordinaries Lawrence Scanlan Joseph Sarsfield Glass John Joseph Mitty James E. Kearney Duane Garrison Hunt Joseph Lennox Federal William Weigand George Hugh Niederauer John Charles Wester Churches Cathedral Cathedral of the Madeleine Parishes St. John the Baptist Church, Salt Lake City St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Park City Education High school Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City St. Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden Priests Robert Joseph Dwyer Miscellany Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Skaggs Catholic Center Catholicism Portal