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Central Catholic High School (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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Central Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory school for boys in Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania
, United States
. It is a part of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
and is administrated and partially staffed by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
, Bishop
Hugh Charles Boyle
of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
embarked on an ambitious program to expand Diocesan involvement in education beyond the historic parish schools founded by the predominantly Catholic immigrant population of the city. In order to fulfill his personal goal of creating an environment which would foster "faith, service, and scholarship", Boyle invited the Brothers of the Christian Schools (more commonly known as the Christian Brothers) to found an all-male secondary school in Oakland
, the historic academic heart of Pittsburgh. The first freshman class entered in 1927, and Central Catholic's great success allowed Boyle to greatly expand on the Diocesan network of male schools with North Catholic
, Serra Catholic
, and South Hills Catholic High School.
For over eighty years the school has been renowned for its academic, athletic, and artistic achievements. Alumni and administrators claim that it is Central Catholic's "mystique" which imbues the institution with such a strong reputation. Although the school originally served only the central neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, the decline of regional equivalents such as North Catholic and South Catholic (evidenced by both schools' gradual switch to coeducation
) eventually attracted students from a wider geographic and socioeconomic spectrum. Today Central Catholic student body is extremely diverse for a Pittsburgh high school, with neighborhoods represented ranging from the traditional Catholic strongholds of Bloomfield
and Squirrel Hill to suburban communities such as Cranberry
, Jefferson Hills
, and Fox Chapel
. The extensive prestige of Central eventually also encouraged the Diocese to open a sister school, Oakland Catholic
, also in the Oakland area.
Central Catholic's academic courses are track-based and divided into five levels of rigor: "learning lab" (Level 1), Intermediate (Level 2), "Mainstream" (Level 3), Honors (Level 4), and Advanced Placement (Level 5). Class rank is based upon GPA weighted for level. Incoming freshmen are placed into various levels within the six required departments (English
, mathematics
, social studies
, science
, foreign language
, catechetics) based on elementary school
grades and a standardized test given by the school itself. Freshman may opt to take an additional music or visual arts course, or gym. Registration for classes for the next year is completed by students and teachers toward the end of the previous academic year. Upperclassmen enjoy more freedom in terms of course and department selection. Central Catholic offers more than 15 AP courses and more than 30 Honors courses, these usually being dominated by the intellectual elite of each class. The school is noted for the strength of the English and Mathematics departments as indicated by students' achievement on the SAT
, and by the number of students who are recognized in academic competitions (essay contests, quiz bowls, etc.) throughout the city and surrounding counties. As a college preparatory school, Central strives to prepare students for the academic rigors of college life, helping them to develop the abilities to think critically, write concisely, read analytically, and speak effectively.
Built in the National Romantic style
with soaring towers and stabilizing buttresses, the school building is a designated historic landmark and is located in Oakland, a few minutes' walk away from both the University of Pittsburgh
and Carnegie Mellon University
.
, soccer, swimming
, and football
. The other varsity sports offered are basketball
, baseball
, tennis
, lacrosse
, bowling
, ice hockey
, in-line hockey, golf
, rowing
, cross country
and volleyball
. Fencing
, table tennis
, Ultimate frisbee
, and disc golf
are offered as club sports.
During the varsity football season and the seasons of other successful teams, student life is heavily centered on athletics and sporting events; however, sports do not dominate during off-season. Many athletic programs are heavily intellectually dominated, most notably the rowing team, from which Ivy League
universities frequently recruit.
In addition to its traditional reputation in athletics, Central Catholic is also known for its excellent Forensics team, musical theater productions (as demonstrated by seven Gene Kelly Awards
in the last four years alone), PJAS
participation, student publications (such as The Promethean), chess
team, and robotics team.
The school's mascot is the Viking
. It had a long-standing rivalry with North Catholic High School
until enrollment greatly declined at North Catholic and competition grew increasingly one-sided in favor of Central Catholic. North Allegheny and Woodland Hills
have come to replace North Catholic as Central's major rivals in sports, and Shady Side Academy
in academics.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is a part of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is a Roman Catholic diocese. It was established in Western Pennsylvania on August 11, 1843. The diocese includes 211 parishes in the counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence, and Washington, an area of with a Catholic population of 719,801...
and is administrated and partially staffed by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
History
In the 1920s1920s
File:1920s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Sean Hogan during the Irish Civil War; Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol in accordance to the 18th amendment, which made alcoholic beverages illegal throughout the entire decade; In...
, Bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
Hugh Charles Boyle
Hugh Charles Boyle
Hugh Charles Boyle was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Pittsburgh from 1921 until his death in 1950.-Biography:...
of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is a Roman Catholic diocese. It was established in Western Pennsylvania on August 11, 1843. The diocese includes 211 parishes in the counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence, and Washington, an area of with a Catholic population of 719,801...
embarked on an ambitious program to expand Diocesan involvement in education beyond the historic parish schools founded by the predominantly Catholic immigrant population of the city. In order to fulfill his personal goal of creating an environment which would foster "faith, service, and scholarship", Boyle invited the Brothers of the Christian Schools (more commonly known as the Christian Brothers) to found an all-male secondary school in Oakland
Oakland (Pittsburgh)
Oakland is the academic, cultural, and healthcare center of Pittsburgh and is Pennsylvania's third largest "Downtown". Only Center City Philadelphia and Downtown Pittsburgh can claim more economic and social activity than Oakland...
, the historic academic heart of Pittsburgh. The first freshman class entered in 1927, and Central Catholic's great success allowed Boyle to greatly expand on the Diocesan network of male schools with North Catholic
North Catholic High School
North Catholic High School is a private Catholic high school located on Troy Hill on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the Trojan and its official colors are scarlet and gold....
, Serra Catholic
Serra Catholic High School
Serra Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.-Background:...
, and South Hills Catholic High School.
For over eighty years the school has been renowned for its academic, athletic, and artistic achievements. Alumni and administrators claim that it is Central Catholic's "mystique" which imbues the institution with such a strong reputation. Although the school originally served only the central neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, the decline of regional equivalents such as North Catholic and South Catholic (evidenced by both schools' gradual switch to coeducation
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
) eventually attracted students from a wider geographic and socioeconomic spectrum. Today Central Catholic student body is extremely diverse for a Pittsburgh high school, with neighborhoods represented ranging from the traditional Catholic strongholds of Bloomfield
Bloomfield (Pittsburgh)
Bloomfield is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh; it is located three miles from the Golden Triangle, which is the city's center, and is represented on Pittsburgh City Council by Patrick Dowd and Bill Peduto. Bloomfield is referred to as Pittsburgh's Little Italy...
and Squirrel Hill to suburban communities such as Cranberry
Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania
Cranberry Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is classified as a Second Class Township and follows the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Second Class Township Code. The population was 28,098 as of the 2010 census....
, Jefferson Hills
Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania
Jefferson Hills is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It includes the community of "Large, Pennsylvania". As of the 2010 census the population was 10,619...
, and Fox Chapel
Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania
Fox Chapel is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, and is a suburb of Pittsburgh located northeast of downtown.The population was 5,388 as of the 2010 census.-History:...
. The extensive prestige of Central eventually also encouraged the Diocese to open a sister school, Oakland Catholic
Oakland Catholic High School
Oakland Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic college preparatory school for girls located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was established by Bishop Donald Wuerl in 1989 as the merger of former all-girl parish high schools of Sacred Heart and St. Paul...
, also in the Oakland area.
Central Catholic's academic courses are track-based and divided into five levels of rigor: "learning lab" (Level 1), Intermediate (Level 2), "Mainstream" (Level 3), Honors (Level 4), and Advanced Placement (Level 5). Class rank is based upon GPA weighted for level. Incoming freshmen are placed into various levels within the six required departments (English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, social studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, foreign language
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
, catechetics) based on elementary school
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
grades and a standardized test given by the school itself. Freshman may opt to take an additional music or visual arts course, or gym. Registration for classes for the next year is completed by students and teachers toward the end of the previous academic year. Upperclassmen enjoy more freedom in terms of course and department selection. Central Catholic offers more than 15 AP courses and more than 30 Honors courses, these usually being dominated by the intellectual elite of each class. The school is noted for the strength of the English and Mathematics departments as indicated by students' achievement on the SAT
SAT
The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
, and by the number of students who are recognized in academic competitions (essay contests, quiz bowls, etc.) throughout the city and surrounding counties. As a college preparatory school, Central strives to prepare students for the academic rigors of college life, helping them to develop the abilities to think critically, write concisely, read analytically, and speak effectively.
Built in the National Romantic style
National Romantic Style
The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the national romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. Designers turned to early Medieval and even prehistoric precedents to construct a style appropriate to the perceived character of a people...
with soaring towers and stabilizing buttresses, the school building is a designated historic landmark and is located in Oakland, a few minutes' walk away from both the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
and Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
.
Student life
The school has a storied athletic history that includes recent championships for track and fieldTrack and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, soccer, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, and football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. The other varsity sports offered are basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
, ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, in-line hockey, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, rowing
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. Fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
, table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
, Ultimate frisbee
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
, and disc golf
Disc golf
Disc golf is a disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc." Of the more than 3000...
are offered as club sports.
During the varsity football season and the seasons of other successful teams, student life is heavily centered on athletics and sporting events; however, sports do not dominate during off-season. Many athletic programs are heavily intellectually dominated, most notably the rowing team, from which Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
universities frequently recruit.
In addition to its traditional reputation in athletics, Central Catholic is also known for its excellent Forensics team, musical theater productions (as demonstrated by seven Gene Kelly Awards
Gene Kelly Awards
The Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater, named after the actor/director Gene Kelly, are given out yearly by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and the University of Pittsburgh. The award was founded in 1991 and celebrates excellence in the musicals of the Pittsburgh...
in the last four years alone), PJAS
Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science
Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science is a state-wide science fair in Pennsylvania that was founded in 1934. It includes both a regional meet as well as a state meet at Penn State University. The science fair is open to all students of participating schools in grades 7-12...
participation, student publications (such as The Promethean), chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
team, and robotics team.
The school's mascot is the Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
. It had a long-standing rivalry with North Catholic High School
North Catholic High School
North Catholic High School is a private Catholic high school located on Troy Hill on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the Trojan and its official colors are scarlet and gold....
until enrollment greatly declined at North Catholic and competition grew increasingly one-sided in favor of Central Catholic. North Allegheny and Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills High School
Woodland Hills High School is a secondary school teaching students in the grades for the Woodland Hills School District located in Churchill, Pennsylvania. It is the result of a 1981 court-ordered desegregation merger. Before the merger the building was the location of the Churchill Area High...
have come to replace North Catholic as Central's major rivals in sports, and Shady Side Academy
Shady Side Academy
Shady Side Academy is a private, secular coeducational PK-12 preparatory school located on three campuses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, established in 1883.- Campuses :Shady Side Academy has three campuses in Pittsburgh....
in academics.
Notable alumni
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. - Zachary QuintoZachary QuintoZachary John Quinto is an American actor and producer. Quinto grew up in Pennsylvania and was active in high school musical theater. In the early 2000s he guest starred in television series and appeared in a recurring role in the serial drama 24 from 2003 to 2004...
- actor, director.