Chaminade High School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory high school for young men. Located in Mineola, New York, the school was founded in 1930 by the Society of Mary (Marianists), an international Roman Catholic teaching order of priests and religious Brothers. The school is named for Father William Joseph Chaminade, S.M. (1761-1850), who founded the Marianist order in 1817, and who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000. The school co...
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Chaminade High School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory high school for young men. Located in Mineola, New York, the school was founded in 1930 by the Society of Mary (Marianists), an international Roman Catholic teaching order of priests and religious Brothers. The school is named for Father William Joseph Chaminade, S.M. (1761-1850), who founded the Marianist order in 1817, and who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000. The school continues to be operated by the Marianists and is independent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre.
The school has a student body of slightly over 1,700 who come from Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk Counties), and neighboring New York City. The administration and faculty consist of both Marianists and lay men and women.
Students follow a liberal arts curriculum, including four years of Religion, English, Social Studies, Foreign Language (either Spanish, French, German, or Latin), Mathematics, Science (Earth Science or Oceanography,...
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