Holy Cross High School (Queens)

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Holy Cross High School is a co-educational Catholic high school located in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. Formerly a boys' school, the school began to admit girls from the 2018–19 academic year.

Founded in 1955,[1] Holy Cross High School was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, the school is sponsored by the Brothers of Holy Cross.

The School's team is the Holy Cross Knights and the school's athletic archrival is the St. Francis Preparatory School Terriers. Since they are both located on Francis Lewis Boulevard approximately Script error: No such module "convert". apart, when they play each other the game is called the Battle of the Boulevard.[2]

History

The proposal for the first all-boys Catholic high school in Queens was developed at the University of Notre Dame in the early 1940s by Msgr. Edmund Reilly, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church (Flatlands) and Rev. Frederick Schulte, CSC. The Brothers of Holy Cross were invited to come and work at the Boys' Department of St. Thomas Aquinas in 1944 and St. Francis of Assisi in 1947. Shortly afterwards, the Brothers were invited to establish a high school in Queens. In September 1955, Holy Cross High School opened despite the school building being unfinished. Shortly afterwards with the support of parents and other involved parties, the Brothers of the Holy Cross assumed operational control of the school. The mission of the school is to educate young people within the traditions of Catholicism and to prepare them for life after graduating. In 2017, the school announced its intention to become co-educational and admit girls for the first time. The school became co-ed starting in fall 2018.[3] Other schools in the United States operated by the Congregation of Holy Cross had already been going co-educational in prior years.[4] In 2025, the school was expanded for the first time in it’s history with the construction of the new Arts, Technology, and Athletics Center. The additional building is expected to open in 2026. [5]

Academics

Holy Cross is a college preparatory school with four levels of college preparatory courses. The school offers the Blessed Father Basil Moreau Honors Program and the Science Research Program. When the school was first opened, they had an industrial arts program which included a print shop which printed, among other things, the school newspaper "The Lance". This program was discontinued during the principalship of Brother Aubert Harrigan, C.S.C. in favor of expanding the mission and purpose of the school to be a college preparatory school. It was during the John McGovern tenure (75-81) that the governance structure of the school was changed from a completely religious (CSC) board of trustees to a two-pronged board structure consisting of an ownership (Congregation of Holy Cross) board working in collaboration with a lay board of Directors (Executive Committee) appointed by the ownership group. It was during the McGovern tenure that the school reached its highest enrollment (1400+). For many years McGovern promoted this structure annually at the convention of the National Catholic Educational Association where he also served in later years as National Public Policy Research Associate. [6]

Religious life

Holy Cross offers intellectual pursuits such as Campus Ministry. The Holy Cross Brothers still staff the school in various capacities; however as a result of governance changes instituted during the McGovern tenure in collaboration with provincial leadership, the school is operating under a "sponsorship" model with the Brothers of Holy Cross constituting the ownership board and a local Board of Directors constituting the management board. The religious philosophy is based on the mission of The Brothers of Holy Cross which were founded in Le Mans, France in 1835. [7]

Notable alumni

Basketball

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Charles Jenkins with the Golden State Warriors in 2012

Football

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Dean Marlowe with the Buffalo Bills in 2018

Baseball

Soccer

  • Marcos Lugris, former professional soccer player NY Cosmos/Dallas Sidekicks/Houston Dynamos-Puerto Rico National Team [30]

Other notables

References

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  3. ↑ Holy Cross HS’s move to coed a success
  4. ↑ History
  5. ↑ Holy Cross High School in Flushing reveals plans for new state-of-the-art campus building
  6. ↑ Academic Programs
  7. ↑ Campus Ministry
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120227075658/http://www.virginiasports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=88842&SPID=10616&DB_OEM_ID=17800&ATCLID=1506560&Q_SEASON=2009
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  27. ↑ Flashback Q&A: Former Husker I-back John O’Leary
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  33. ↑ https://www.nndb.com/people/178/000130785/
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External links

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