Central Catholic High School (Bloomington, Illinois)

Central Catholic High School

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Our difference is our strength.
Address
1201 Airport Road
Bloomington, Illinois 61704-2534
United States
Coordinates 40°29′35″N 88°55′22″W / 40.49306°N 88.92278°W / 40.49306; -88.92278Coordinates: 40°29′35″N 88°55′22″W / 40.49306°N 88.92278°W / 40.49306; -88.92278
Information
School type Private parochial high school[1]
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic[2]
Patron saint(s) Elizabeth Ann Seton[3]
Established 1886 (1886)[4]
Founder Michael Weldon[5]:152
Status Operational
Locale Small city[2]
School board Advisory Committee[6]
Oversight Pastors' Board[6]
Authorizer Diocese of Peoria[7]
Superintendent Sharon Weiss[8]
CEEB code 140340[1]
NCES School ID 00346865[2]
Chairman Mike Alexander[6]
Principal Sean Foster[8]
Chaplain Dustin Schultz[1]
Staff 6.5 (FTE)[9]
Faculty 21 full-time, 6 part-time[1]
Grades 9–12
Gender coed[2]
Enrollment 319[8] (2016-17)
Average class size 19[1]
Student to teacher ratio 16:1[10]
Schedule type Semester, daily[11]
Schedule M–F except holidays
Hours in school day 6.7[2]
Campus size 15 acres[4]
Area 100,000 square feet[12]
Campus type Micro-urban[13]
Color(s)      Navy blue
     White
     Vegas gold[14]
Fight song Victory March variant[11]
Athletics IHSA 1A/2A/3A[8]
Athletics conference Corn Belt[8]
Sports 9 boys', 8 girls'[nb 1][15]
Team name Saints[8]
Rival University High School[16]
Accreditation AdvancED[17]
National ranking WP: 1,984[18] (2016)
Average ACT scores (2016) 24.5[1]
Publication Central Catholic @ A Glance[19]
Newspaper Herald of the Saints[19]
Yearbook Centrix[20]
Endowment $3,842,936 (2014)[4]
Budget $3,603,811.23 (2013–14)[4]
School fees vary
Tuition $7,245 parish affiliated
$9,045 non-affiliated[21]
Revenue $3,633,023.17 (2012–13)[4]
Feeder schools Corpus Christi Catholic School, Epiphany Catholic School, St. Mary's School[22][23]
Graduates (2016) 73[24]
Affiliation NCEA,[2] NASSP, IHSA[1]
Website blmcchs.org
Last updated: 1 October 2016

Central Catholic High School (CCHS or Central Catholic) is a private co-educational Catholic high school in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. It serves approximately 319 students in the Bloomington-Normal area.[1][8] CCHS is one of seven Catholic high schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria[25] and the only Catholic high school in McLean County.[26]

Begun in 1886 as St. Mary's High School by Holy Trinity Parish as an extension of the parish grade school, it was renamed Trinity High School in 1928 after construction of a separate high school building. In 1967, the school was renamed again to Central Catholic High School to reflect new roles of other regional parishes in oversight of the school. In 2003 CCHS moved from its location near downtown Bloomington to its current east side location on Airport Road. The school building is more than 100,000 square feet on a fifteen-acre property and has capacity for 500 students.

CCHS offers Advanced Placement and dual credit courses. Vocational education is available through a partnership with the Bloomington Area Career Center. A large majority of Central Catholic graduates pursue further education. Central Catholic requires community service in addition to coursework as part of its graduation requirements.

Extracurricular activities at the school include sports teams, student clubs and organizations. CCHS participates in Illinois High School Association athletics and is a member of Corn Belt Conference. Teams at CCHS have won state championships in boys' and girls' basketball, football, girls' track and field, and volleyball.

History

St. Mary's High School

Circa 1896 photograph of the St. Mary's School building

CCHS has roots in St. Mary's School, built at a cost of $26,000 (equivalent to $686,000 in 2015)[27] by Holy Trinity Parish in 1884 during the pastorate of Michael Weldon.[5]:152 The building was located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Locust and Center Streets in Bloomington, Illinois.[28] Initially only a grade school, the building was altered in 1886 to add high school classes. Two graduates in 1898 composed the high school's first graduating class. The parish paid off the debt for the school building in 1909. In 1912 Illinois State University and the University of Illinois recognized St. Mary's high school curriculum. The graduating class that spring had twenty students.[4] Sinsinawa Dominican sisters served as faculty at St. Mary's and subsequently at Trinity High School.[4][5]

Trinity High School

Circa 1933 postcard illustrating Trinity High School

By 1920, inspectors from the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Education were dissatisfied with the high school facilities at St. Mary's School.[5]:207 With the student body growing,[29] land for a separate high school building next to Holy Trinity Church at 712 North Center Street[30] was purchased from the Dominican sisters in summer 1922 for $25,000 (equivalent to $354,000 in 2015).[5]:201 However, due to the poor health of pastor Michael Weldon, construction was postponed until after his death.[5]:207 The cornerstone of the school building was laid on 25 September 1927.[5]:223 Costing $285,000 (equivalent to $3,889,000 in 2015), the building was completed on 3 September 1928 and opened one week later as Trinity High School.[5]:224 Fifty-nine seniors graduated the following June.[4] The St. Mary's School building was renovated in summer 1928 and continued to serve as Holy Trinity Grade School.[5]:226

In 1929, Trinity High School gained accreditation from the North Central Association.[4] The school joined the IHSA in 1941 when private schools were first allowed to participate.[31] A $300,000 (equivalent to $2,600,000 in 2015) funding drive in 1954 financed the additions of a cafeteria and south annex to the school. The annex initially housed 7th and 8th grade classrooms to alleviate overcrowding at Holy Trinity Grade School.[4] After construction of new grade schools in 1963,[30] annex classrooms were used for math and physical education classes.[4] Trinity High School's gymnasium, nicknamed "The Pit" in the 1970s, was known for its high temperatures and loud water hammers,[32] and for intimidating visiting teams due to the close proximity of the stands to the gym floor.[31][33]

Central Catholic High School

CCHS roundabout entrance
CCHS enrollment from school years 1989-90 to 2014-15

In the fall of 1967,[1] Trinity High School became a diocesan school and was renamed Central Catholic High School after the diocese requested other regional parishes join in governing and subsidizing the school.[34] The old St. Mary's School building was demolished in 1969.[35] Private donations in 1991 and 1992 funded renovations to the chemistry lab, the creation of computer lab, and updates to the biology lab.[36][37][38] In compliance with a diocesan directive, Central Catholic implemented mandatory hair sample drug testing of students in 2000.[39][40][41]

Church officials began considering sites for a new school building in 1996, initially considering a west side location in the former Chicago & Alton railroad yards.[42] This site was later rejected due to the large amount of environmental cleanup needed.[43] In February 1998, school officials announced plans to construct a new school building in east or southeast Bloomington after renovation of the current building was deemed to expensive.[33][44] That July, the pastors board announced fifteen acres of Deneen family farmland in east Bloomington were reserved for a new school building.[45] An $11 million fundraising effort to build a new school on the land gifted to the diocese began in 2001.[4][46] Construction started on 12 August 2002 with an estimated cost of $11.4 million (equivalent to $15,000,000 in 2015).[47] In June 2003, Mark Williams - pastor of Holy Trinity Parish - announced the decision to demolish the old school building as renovation and repurposing at an estimated cost of $4 million (equivalent to $5,200,000 in 2015) was considered too expensive.[48] The new building at 1201 Airport Road opened on 25 August 2003[49] with 323 students enrolled that fall.[50] In June and July 2004, the Center Street school building was razed[51] and in the following year Bill Hundman Memorial Field was completed.[52]

In 2005, the CCHS accountant was charged with embezzling money from the school.[53] CCHS enrollment peaked in 2009 with 423 students.[52] As $2,000,000 in financial pledges for construction of the new school building were left unfulfilled, capital campaigns at the four regional Catholic parishes were started in 2011 to pay off the remaining debt.[26] A 2013 upgrade installed school-wide wireless internet access[54] in conjunction with a new bring your own device program.[4] In recent years enrollment at the school as dropped, in part attributable to the diminished presence of State Farm Insurance in the area.[26]

Between 1898 and 2014, 6,556 students graduated from the school. This includes 406 students from St. Mary's High School between 1898 and 1928 as well as 2,482 students from Trinity High School between 1929 and 1967.[4]

Campus

Central Catholic High School is located on a 15-acre site[55] at 1201 Airport Road in Bloomington, Illinois. The school property is bordered to the west by Airport Road and to the south by Cornelius Drive. McGraw Park borders the school property to the north and east.[56]

Containing more than 100,000 square feet[12] with a capacity for 500 students,[57] the school building is divided into two wings.[12] The academic wing contains sixteen classrooms, four science labs, two art labs, a library, and a computer lab. The social wing is bounded on one end by the 1400-seat Cvengros Gymnasium and on the other by the performing arts center - a 560-seat auditorium, audio lab, band room, and chorus room. Between are a 100-seat chapel, cafeteria, commons area, faculty dining area, main office, weight room and four locker rooms.[12][55]

A roundabout lies on the south side of the school building. On the north side is the school parking lot and Bill Hundman Memorial Field, which contains the school football field and track.[56] CCHS uses McGraw Park facilities for baseball, softball, and tennis.[58]

March 2011 USGS near-infrared aerial orthoimage of Central Catholic High School and McGraw Park
Cvengros Gymnasium
Bill Hundman Memorial Field

Demographics

Enrollment for the 2016-2017 school year is 319.[8] The student body in the 2014-2015 school year was 88% white, 6% Hispanic and 6% other. 48% of the student body was female and 52% was male.[9] In the 2015-2016 school year 5% of students were designated low-income. No students were designated as being in special education that year.[18]

56% percent of teachers in the 2012-2013 school year were female and 44% were male.[59] More than half of the faculty has a graduate degree.[1]

Academics

Curriculum

Course requirements for graduation[1][60]
Course Credits
Theology 4
English 4
Mathematics 3
Science 3
Social Studies 2.5
Foreign Language/Fine Arts/BACC 2
Wellness (PE and Health)[nb 2] 2
Consumer education 0.5
Write, cite, and communicate[nb 3] 0.5
Comprehensive Fine Arts[nb 4] 0.5
Electives 3
Minimum total credits 25

Central Catholic High School requires a total of twenty-five credits of coursework to graduate. Each semester-long class is worth 0.5 credits. Students must also complete a diocesan religion exam, pass the state constitution exam, and perform 5 hours of community service per quarter. At least four of these quarterly hours must be connected to the Catholic Works of Mercy or assist the local parishes.[11][60] More than 11,000 service hours are performed by the students annually.[26]

Students generally take electives in their junior and senior years.[60] Central Catholic offers Advanced Placement courses in English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, and U.S. History. On-campus dual credit introductory courses in psychology and sociology are available to juniors and seniors in partnership with Heartland Community College. Upperclassmen may also take vocational education courses through the Bloomington Area Career Center at Bloomington High School. Driver education classes are provided by Normal Community High School.[60]

Schedule

The CCHS school year generally runs from late-August to late-May and is divided into two eighteen-week semesters and four nine-week quarters.[11] Students typically take seven classes per semester.[1] Classes are held on a daily schedule and each class period is generally forty-five minutes long.[11] The CCHS school day runs from 8:00 AM to 2:40 PM.[10]

Tests, rankings, and statistics

About forty-six percent of CCHS students take an art class and twenty-two percent take a music class.[26] Approximately 50% of students take at least one AP course before graduating.[1] CCHS has a four-year graduation rate of 99%.[18] In 2016, 86% of graduates reported plans to attend a four-year college or university and 14% planned to attend a two-year college or technical school.[1]

The average ACT test score for the class of 2016 was 24.5 compared to a state and national average of 20.8. In the 2015-2016 school year, seventy-five students taking a total of 146 AP exams produced twenty-four scores of 5 and seventy-seven scores of 3 or 4. In 2014 the school had one national merit finalist, one national merit semi-finalist, and three national merit commended scholars among juniors who took the PSAT/NMSQT.[1]

In its 2016 ranking of the most challenging high schools nationally, The Washington Post ranked Central Catholic High School 1,984th based on its Challenge Index. It also ranked CCHS 65th in Illinois and 88th among private schools.[18]

Extracurricular activities

Central Catholic has approximately thirty student activities, clubs, and organizations in addition to sports teams. A school play and musical are performed each fall and spring respectively.[11] Each January, Central Catholic students participate in March for Life Chicago. Upperclassmen also travel to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Life.[61][62]

Athletics

The first football team at St. Mary's High School in 1924

Central Catholic High School participates in Illinois High School Association athletics and competes in classes 1A, 2A, and 3A for various sports. It is a member of the Corn Belt Conference.[8] Baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis and track and field are currently offered boys' sports. Basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball are the currently offered girls' sports.[15] More than eighty-percent of students participate in a school sport. In 2014, fourteen out of ninety graduates signed for collegiate sports.[26]

Competitive sports at the high school date to the 1920s. Football started in 1924 at St. Mary's High School under coach Earl Peirce followed by a boys' basketball team in 1926 under coach Charley Bennett and a baseball team in 1928 under coach Bill Connors. The baseball team was undefeated in 1929 and 1930.[8] Before the IHSA allowed private schools to participate in 1941, the boys' basketball team won State Catholic Tournament championships under Bennett in 1927 and 1928 and placed second in the three years following. It was also the State Catholic Tournament champion in 1933 under coach John Callans and in 1940 and 1941 under coach Essau Dotlich.[31][35]

CCHS joined the Corn Belt Conference as a founding member in 1950. The conference merged with the Heart of Illinois Conference in 1972, but CCHS later rejoined the Corn Belt Conference when it was recreated in 1978.[63] After the merging of the Corn Belt Conference and the Okaw Valley Conference beginning in the 2017-18 school year, CCHS will be a part of the new Illini Prairie Conference.[64]

Central Catholic High School is the first school in the state of Illinois to win state football titles in four different classes.[65]

Football practice field

On 10 November 2014, the Bloomington city council voted 5-4 to purchase four acres of land near McGraw Park in Empire Business park using state funds and to rent the land to CCHS for use as a football practice field. The council voted with the understanding that the current football practice field on land owned by the Central Illinois Regional Airport was in a Federal Aviation Agency restricted flight path zone and the school would have to move to another location in 2015.[66] In 2009, State senator and CCHS alum Bill Brady had arranged a $750,000 state legislative grant for the purchase as part of a General Assembly capital bill.[67][68] Alderman Jim Fruin, another CCHS alum, voted in favor. CCHS agreed to spend at least $20,000 to improve the land, pay an annual rent of $1,700, as well as maintain, mow, and clean the field. The annual cost to the city was estimated to be $2,500 and the land was to be used as a park when not in use by the school.[66]

After the vote, alderman Joni Painter discovered from the school website that Fruin was a member of the CCHS Board of Trustees, an interest not previously disclosed.[69] Council members also learned that CCHS could renew the lease for its current practice field for up to another fifteen years. Fruin and CCHS principal Sean Foster stated they had believed the contract could not be renewed past 2015.[70] Mayor Tari Renner refused to sign-off on the approval pending an attorney general opinion on whether any conflict of interest law or ordinance was violated. Fruin stated he would defer to the attorney general and that did not believe there was a conflict of interest because trustees serve only an advisory role.[71] A Pantagraph editorial later suggested several other potential conflicts of interest: the Deneen family - who donated land for the new school building - were stakeholders in the development firm from which the land would be purchased, Fruin's real estate agency - Coldwell Banker - was to oversee the transaction though he would have no role, and CCHS football coach Mike Moews is the brother of city parks superintendent Bobby Moews.[72]

At a 24 November 2014 council meeting, Painter made a motion to reconsider the agreement. The council unanimously rejected the land deal after Fruin recused himself from the vote. The council then discussed other potential uses for the money[69] despite prior statements by senator Bill Brady that the money could be reallocated to other communities in his district if it wasn't used to expand McGraw Park.[69][73][74] Renner stated that the grant could be used for any Bloomington parks and trails. According to Brady, the money was directed solely toward McGraw Park at the direction of former Bloomington mayor Steve Stockton. Stockton disputed this characterization, stating that he had discussed alternative uses for the money.[69][75]

On 21 November 2014 the Illinois Senate Republican Caucus asked the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to halt the grant. Learning of this several weeks later, Renner disagreed that the caucus had authority to prevent use of the money. The city council continued discussions of how to allocate the money while Brady formed a committee headed by former Bloomington mayor Jesse Smart to determine how the grant should be used.[76][77][78] On 7 December 2014 the Bloomington City Council approved use of the grant money for improvements to the Constitution Trail, Miller Park pavilion, and Sunnyside Park.[79]

CCHS renewed its lease for the airport practice field in mid-December 2014.[80] On 14 January 2015, Brady's grant committee completed its review and recommended allocating money for the Sunnyside Park and Miller Park pavilion projects in Bloomington as well as three other projects in Lake Bloomington, Delavan, Illinois, and McLean, Illinois.[81][82] The conflict of interest review was called off after the 21 November vote, though the city legal department clarified conflicts of interest in the city code.[83] As of December 2015 none of the communities have received any money from the grant pending passage of a state budget.[68]

Notable alumni

Former principals

Notes

  1. ↑ Does not include cheerleading
  2. ↑ Taken freshman and sophomore years
  3. ↑ Taken freshman year
  4. ↑ Taken freshman year

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