Saint John's Preparatory School (Collegeville, Minnesota)
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1857 Watertower Road Collegeville, Minnesota, (Stearns County) 56321 United States |
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| Coordinates | 45°34′49″N 94°23′17″W / 45.58028°N 94.38806°WCoordinates: 45°34′49″N 94°23′17″W / 45.58028°N 94.38806°W |
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| Type | Private, college-prep, day and boarding school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1857 |
| Head of school | Fr. Jonathan Licari, OSB |
| Grades | 6–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 313 [1] (2011-2012) |
| • Grade 6 | 22 |
| • Grade 7 | 33 |
| • Grade 8 | 27 |
| • Grade 9 | 63 |
| • Grade 10 | 60 |
| • Grade 11 | 56 |
| • Grade 12 | 52 |
| • Other | 0 |
| Average class size | 16 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11:1 |
| Color(s) |
Cardinal red and Carolina blue |
| Fight song | SJU Fight Song |
| Athletics conference | Prairie Conference |
| Mascot | The Rat |
| Nickname | Rats (unofficial) |
| Team name | Johnnies |
| Rival | Cathedral High School, Royalton High School, Kimball High School, Holdingford High School |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Average SAT scores | 1872 |
| Average ACT scores | 29.1 |
| Publication | The Prep World |
| Newspaper | The Prep Post |
| Yearbook | The Pine Curtain |
| Acting Principal | Pamela McCarthy |
| Athletic Director | Bryan Backes |
| Website | www.sjprep.net |
Saint John’s Preparatory School (SJP) is a Catholic co-educational, day and boarding college preparatory school located in Collegeville, Minnesota. Founded in 1857, it is located in the Diocese of Saint Cloud and is administered by the Benedictine monks of Saint John's Abbey. The school includes a middle school consisting of grades 6–8 and an upper school consisting of grades 9–12. The student body consists of students from the local area along with 5- and 7-day boarding students from across the United States and around the world. In the 2015–16 academic year, the student body included students from 16 countries.
Saint John's Preparatory School was established in 1857 by the monks of Saint John's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Collegeville, MN. SJP is the oldest secondary school in Minnesota. It was all-male until 1972 when the nearby all-girls school, St. Benedict's Academy owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Benedict's Monastery in St. Joseph, MN closed. The college sections of both schools are still in operation and run as partnered liberal arts institutions.
Today the school has an almost equal number of boys and girls. In 2011, 75% of the students at SJP were from the St. Cloud, Minnesota area, with the remaining 25% coming from out of state and worldwide. The 2013-2014 student body has representation from 17 countries. The Middle School opened in 1997, with 21 7th and 8th-grade students in a combined classroom setting. Since then the Middle School has nearly tripled in size and with high interest from area families, SJP added a 6th-grade program in 2009.
Saint John's Prep has been named an International Baccalaureate World School and has been approved to offer the IB Diploma Programme starting Fall 2011 with the first class graduating with the IB Diploma in 2013.
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