Aquin Catholic Schools

Aquin Catholic Schools
Aquin Junior-Senior High School
Address
1419 South Galena Avenue
Freeport, Illinois 61032
United States
Coordinates 42°17′9″N 89°36′22″W / 42.28583°N 89.60611°W / 42.28583; -89.60611Coordinates: 42°17′9″N 89°36′22″W / 42.28583°N 89.60611°W / 42.28583; -89.60611
Information
Type private
Denomination Roman Catholic
Superintendent Rosemarie Brubaker
Grades 9–12
Gender coed
Color(s) Blue and Gold         
Athletics conference Northwest Upstate Illini
Team name Bulldogs
Accreditation North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[1]
Website www.aquinschools.org

Aquin Catholic Schools is a group of three private Catholic schools in Freeport, Illinois in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford.

On September 6, 2007, Thomas G. Doran, the Bishop of Rockford, renamed the three Catholic schools in Freeport to Aquin Catholic Schools, and their campuses are now referred to as the Junior-Senior High Campus, the Elementary Campus, and the PreSchool Campus.[2]

Traditions

The school's prom is open to 11th and 12th grade (junior and senior) students. Since 1926, the high school has a special prom assignment system used so each student has a date during prom and so cohesion increases among the students.[3] The nuns operating the school first created the tradition, and as years passed other elements became a part of the annual event.[4]

On the day prom dates are assigned, the school places female students in the gymnasium and the male students in the library.[3] The female students wear paper bags so the male students, when they see them, will not know who is who. Each male student, dressed in a formal outfit or a special costume,[4] draws the name of a female student randomly from a hat. The male students later perform skits about their prom dates.[3] After the skits are over the male students ask the females to be their prom dates. The female students give gift bags to the males, and some males also have gift bags for the females.[4] In 2017 Michelle Gallagher, who served as the junior class adviser, stated "It's less of a date and more like something fun to do with your classmates."[3]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ NCA-CASI. "NCA-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  2. ↑ "All System news". Aquin Catholic Schools. 2007-10-03. Archived from the original on May 30, 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Lyga, Breane (2017-03-15). "Aquin High School students continue tradition with prom draw". WREX. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  4. 1 2 3 Leathlean, Jane (2017-03-14). "Aquin draws on 90-year tradition for prom dates". Journal Standard. Retrieved 2017-03-22.


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