Bishop Guertin High School

Last updated

Bishop Guertin High School
Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua NH.jpg
Bishop Guertin High School
Address
Bishop Guertin High School
194 Lund Road

Greater Nashua Region

Nashua
,
New Hampshire
03060

United States
Coordinates 42°44′17″N71°28′29″W / 42.73806°N 71.47472°W / 42.73806; -71.47472
Information
Type Private, Coeducational
MottoScientia et Sanctitas
(Knowledge and Holiness)
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Patron saint(s)Father André Coindre
Established1963
FounderBrothers of the Sacred Heart
PresidentLinda Brodeur
PrincipalJason Strniste
Faculty63
Enrollment785 (2014-2015)
 • College Acceptance Rate100%
Average class size19
Student to teacher ratio12:1
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Green and Gold   
Athletics conferenceNHIAA Division 1
MascotCardinal
Nickname BG, BGHS
Team nameCardinals
Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges [1]
NewspaperThe Nest
Tuition$14,449
plus $150 activity fee
Website www.bghs.org

Bishop Guertin (BG) is a college preparatory independent private Roman Catholic high school in Nashua, New Hampshire. Named for Bishop George Albert Guertin (1869-1931), it was founded by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1963.

Contents

Scholastics

Subjects are divided into nine departments: English, Social Studies, Computer Science, World Languages, Science, Mathematics, Health and Fitness, Fine Arts, and Religious Studies. Guertin students are able to take courses in these departments at the "College Preparatory", "Honors", or "Advanced Placement" level. [2] Guertin teachers are also available for personal help and tutoring before and after school. [3]

World Languages at Guertin are currently Latin, French, and Spanish (including 5th year of language and/or AP language); in addition to these language foundations, Ancient Greek has been recently added to the curriculum as a semester-long "Honors" elective. [4]

Bishop Guertin offers six class periods a day, starting at 7:45 am until 2:30 pm. [5] The class schedule varies from day to day. There is an eight-day cycle with six periods each day. For example, Day A would consist of periods A, B, C, D, E, and F. Lunch is a 30 minute block lunch during the 4th period of the day. There are 5 lunches, with the 1st lunch starting the earliest at 11:00 AM, and the 5th lunch starting the latest at 11:55 AM, both on a regular school day. The next day (called "Day G" due to the fact that class period G starts that day) would begin with period G and continue with periods H, A, B, C, and D. The schedule continues to cycle like this every day until it reaches "Day A" again and the cycle starts over. Also, if there is a snow day, hurricane day, holiday, etc. the BG students return to school the next day with the schedule planned for the missed school day.

The school has one of the highest rates of college acceptance for its students in New Hampshire, which reached an all-time high in 2015, with 100% of the graduating class accepted into at least 1 college.[ citation needed ]

Sports

The Cardinals of Bishop Guertin participate in 17 sports year-round, completely in NHIAA Division I, the division reserved for the largest schools in the state. A notable exception to this is the school's football program, which was in Division II until 2013 before moving up to Division I, the second highest size division of high school football programs in the state. While Bishop Guertin is one of the smaller Division I schools in New Hampshire, its ability to draw students from a wide geographic area in southern New Hampshire and northeastern Massachusetts enables it to be highly competitive in its division.

For decades, Bishop Guertin played their crosstown public school rival, the Nashua Purple Panthers in the Turkey Bowl on Thanksgiving. In 2004, Nashua High School was split into the Panthers of South and the Titans of North, and Bishop Guertin no longer played in the Thanksgiving Day game. Exeter High School and Pinkerton Academy are two main rivals of the school.

The school won seven state titles in 2005. The school's football program won three division II state championship seasons in football with a record of 35–1 between 2004 and 2006. They again won 3 consecutive titles between 2008 and 2010. The girls indoor track team won twelve straight Class L championships, from 2003 to 2014, the boys track team won both the indoor and outdoor track championships in 2010, and the boys cross-country program won titles in 2008 and 2009, while the girls won titles in 2011 and 2014. The boys hockey team won Division I state championships in 2000 and 2001, 2007 and 2008, 2015, and again in 2023.

The boys lacrosse team won state championships in 2005, 2008, 2010-2014, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The girls lacrosse team won the state championship in 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.

The softball team won the state championship in 2017.

Activities

Popular after-school activities include the Environmental Club, Drama Club, Anime Club, Writer's Club, Ukulele Club, Mock Trial, French Club, Rock Appreciation Club, the Crossword Puzzle Club (XWC), Asian American Club, Cornerstone (a community service club), Debate Team, Band, Russian Club, Student Council, Campus Ministry Council (divided into 3 committees- Spiritual Life, Social Justice, and Christian Formation), a FIRST Robotics Competition team, and the NJCL Latin Club.

The Bishop Guertin French Club is also noteworthy. It features a reading group, a film club, and an annual trip to Quebec.

Bishop Guertin has a successful FIRST robotics team, Team 811, with over 75 members. They won the regional Chairmans Award in 2004, and 2014, and the Championship Competition Newton Division Finalist in 2004, as well as the Johnson and Johnson sportsmanship/gracious professionalism awards in 2003, 2007, and 2008, and the Imagery Award in 2005.

In June 2008, and every year since, a group of students led by Br. Donald Tardif and Mrs. Maureen Deblasio initiated a mission trip to Zambia to visit and do community work at a high school run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Related Research Articles

Bishop Feehan High School is a co-educational Catholic high school in Attleboro, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River. The school was built in 1961 and staffed by the Sisters of Mercy. The school has grown to over 1,000 students. Each class is approximately 250+ students, who are selected from a significantly larger pool of applicants.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Webster College</span> Private college in Nashua, New Hampshire, US (1965–2017)

Daniel Webster College (DWC) was a private college in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. It operated from 1965 through 2017 and had a strong aeronautics focus during much of its history. It was a nonprofit college until 2009, when ITT Educational Services, Inc. bought it and converted it to a for-profit model. ITT declared bankruptcy in September 2016. It was operated through the 2016–17 academic year by Southern New Hampshire University, after which the college was closed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rice Memorial High School</span> Parochial, coeducational school in South Burlington, Vermont, United States

Rice Memorial High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary and college preparatory school in South Burlington, Vermont. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington. The student body is mostly drawn from Northern and Central Vermont but includes other students including international students. The school and buildings were named for Bishop Joseph Rice who had established Cathedral High School in 1917.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Theodore Roosevelt High School (Kent, Ohio)</span> Public school in Kent, Ohio, United States

Theodore Roosevelt High School, often referred to as Kent Roosevelt (KRHS), is a public high school in Kent, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in Kent and the Kent City School District and serves students in grades 9–12 living in Kent, Franklin Township, Brady Lake, and Sugar Bush Knolls as well as a small portion of southern Streetsboro. As of the 2021–22 academic year, enrollment was 1,267 students with 73 teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 17:1. Recognition for academic performance over the years has come from the United States Department of Education, Ohio Department of Education, and U.S. News & World Report.

Cathedral High School is a private Catholic high school in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school serves approximately 1,200 students in grades 9 to 12. The school was founded in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by Bishop Joseph Chartrand in 1918 and was run by the Brothers of Holy Cross until it became independent by the late 1970s. Holy Cross returned to the school in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Belmont High School (Massachusetts)</span> School in Belmont, MA, United States

Belmont High School is a four-year public high school in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States. It had 1,364 students enrolled and a student/teacher ratio of 16.3:1 in the 2022–2023 school year. It placed #290 in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report national rankings and #3 for Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trinity High School (Manchester, New Hampshire)</span> Private school in Manchester, , New Hampshire, United States

Trinity High School is a private, Catholic high school located in Manchester, New Hampshire. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Derryfield School</span> Independent school in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

The Derryfield School is an independent college preparatory high school and middle school located in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is a day school serving grades 6–12.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Central Catholic High School (Massachusetts)</span> Private, coeducational school in Lawrence, , Massachusetts, United States

Central Catholic High School is a college preparatory school with an academic campus in Lawrence, Massachusetts and an athletic campus in Lawrence, Massachusetts associated with the Marist Brothers of the Schools and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and founded in 1935 by Brother Florentius.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Riverside High School (Durham, North Carolina)</span> American public school in North Carolina

Riverside High School is a public high school located in Durham, North Carolina. The principal of Riverside High is Dr. Gloria Woods-Weeks, who joined as principal in 2021. Current members of the school administrative team include Dr. Will Okun, Mr. Kwame Stith, Ms. Jasmine McKoy, and Mrs. Tammy Patterson. The school enrolls students from grades 9–12. The school was founded in 1991 and became one of the seven Durham Public High Schools.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Thomas Aquinas High School (New Hampshire)</span> Private, coeducational school in Dover, New Hampshire, United States

St. Thomas Aquinas High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in Dover, New Hampshire, United States, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. It has a student population of approximately 355 and a faculty of 30.

Chris Cameron was an All-American lacrosse player at Lehigh University from 1986 to 1989 who twice led the nation in scoring.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bishop Connolly High School</span> Private, coeducational school in Fall River, , Massachusetts, United States

Bishop Connolly High School was a co-educational Catholic high school in Fall River, Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bedford High School (New Hampshire)</span> Public high school in Bedford, New Hampshire, United States

Bedford High School is a public high school in the town of Bedford, New Hampshire, United States. The high school adjoins the town's Ross A. Lurgio Middle School. The combined schools are situated on a 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus at 47 Nashua Road. The two schools share an 810-seat theatre, a 2000-seat gymnasium, a FieldTurf football field and a synthetic 400-meter track. The approximate cost for constructing this facility in combination with Lurgio was $50 million.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">East Stroudsburg High School South</span> Public high school in East Stroudsburg, , Pennsylvania, United States

East Stroudsburg Senior High School South is a public high school located at 279 North Courtland Street in East Stroudsburg in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the cavalier. The school is part of the East Stroudsburg Area School District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wesleyan School</span> Private Christian school in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States

Wesleyan School is a private college-preparatory nondenominational Christian school located 20 miles north of Atlanta in the suburban city of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1963 and has existed on its current grounds since 1996. The school includes grades K–12. The high school is a member of the Georgia High School Association and competes in the AAA classification in region 7. The school is named after John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, and all faculty are professed Christians from varying denominations. Students come from a variety of faith backgrounds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kennett High School (New Hampshire)</span> Free public school

Kennett High School is a high school in North Conway, New Hampshire, near the village of Redstone. The present school building opened in 2007, replacing the former A. Crosby Kennett High School located at 176 Main Street in Conway, which is now a middle school. Kennett High School serves the towns of Conway, Albany, Bartlett, Eaton, Freedom, Hart's Location, Jackson, Madison, and Tamworth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Division Avenue High School</span> High school in Nassau County, New York, United States

Division Avenue High School is a four-year public high school in Levittown, New York. It is one of two traditional high schools in the Levittown Union Free School District and one of four high schools in the hamlet of Levittown in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County on Long Island. It opened in 1948 as Division Avenue School. It was expanded in 1955 and renamed Division Avenue High School. Its first graduating class was in 1960. It is one of the original school buildings in the district.

Pope John XXIII High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Everett, Massachusetts In United States, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school was established in 1965. It is an independent, coeducational, Catholic college preparatory school serving the metro Boston area. In 2016, Roncalli Prep, recognizing Pope John XXIII's name before taking John as his name was added to the student body. Roncalli Prep attracts Catholic students from the public school system seeking an advanced curriculum including STEM science, honors algebra, honors Spanish and the humanities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Windham High School (New Hampshire)</span> Public high school in Windham, New Hampshire , United States

Windham High School is a public high school in the town of Windham, New Hampshire. The high school was established in 2009, and the first graduating class was in 2012. It serves students from grades 9 to 12 and is part of School Administration Unit (SAU) 95. The school is led by Principal Shannan McKenna.

References

  1. ↑ NEASC-CIS. "NEASC-Commission on Independent Schools". Archived from the original on June 16, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Bishop Guertin High School Academic Departments". Archived from the original on March 31, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Bishop Guertin High School Main page" . Retrieved April 24, 2008.
  4. ↑ "Program of Studies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
  5. ↑ "BG at a Glance". www.bghs.org. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.