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Gloucester Catholic High School is a co-educational four-year Roman Catholic high school located in Gloucester City, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. Its mission is to empower young men and women to develop in all aspects of life: spiritual, intellectual, moral, emotional, social, and physical.〔(Our Mission ), Gloucester Catholic High School. Accessed February 22, 2012.〕 Gloucester Catholic High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1991.〔(Gloucester Catholic High School ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed May 30, 2007.〕 As of the 2011-12 school year, the school had an enrollment of 709 students, including 640 students Grades 9 through 12 and 69 students Grades 7 and 8, and a student–teacher ratio of 16:1.〔 The school serves students from 50 parochial and public schools within the Diocese of Camden.〔 In the Class of 2012, 60% of the students were accepted by four-year colleges or universities and 35% of the students were accepted into two-year colleges or technical schools. Scholarship and grant money awarded to this class totaled over $6.9 million.〔 ==History== After opening in 1928, the school had its first graduating class of 27 students in June 1930. Through the 1940s, the school's enrollment varied between 150 and 200. After World War II, the school added a gymnasium and classrooms to its building on Cumberland Street, to accommodate enrollment that rose as high as 300 during the 1950s, and reached 700 in the 1970s.〔(History ), Gloucester Catholic High School. Accessed August 7, 2013.〕 Under the leadership of John Colman, who became the school's first lay principal in 1999, enrollment at Gloucester Catholic has grown to 850 who come to the school from Gloucester County, as well as from Burlington, Camden and Salem counties.〔 In the 2000s, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden explored possibilities to move the school to Gloucester County, New Jersey. After a two-year study the diocese promoted the idea of moving the school to Deptford Township. Due to legal disputes, in 2005 the diocese announced that it would not build a new school in Deptford Township. Andrew Walton, the spokesperson for the diocese, said that the diocese would either renovate and/or expand the existing Gloucester Catholic or move it elsewhere. Walton added that the district would likely not take both actions at the same time.〔Graham, Kristin A. and Terry Bitman. ("Diocese nixes high school in Deptford; It said it would either build elsewhere or stay in Gloucester City. But it probably will not do both, a spokesman said" ). ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. January 12, 2005. Accessed February 22, 2012. "Spokesman Andrew Walton said the diocese would also consider renovating and expanding Gloucester Catholic High School in Gloucester City instead of building a new school. But it probably won't do both."〕 In 2008 the diocese announced that the district agreed to purchase a farm on a site along Route 77 and across from the Gloucester County 4-H grounds in the Mullica Hill community of Harrison Township for $5,000,000 and move Gloucester Catholic to the site by 2010. The new campus would be the first Catholic high school campus built in around 40 years. Walton said in 2008 that 60% of the families with children in the school live in Gloucester County.〔Hefler, Jan. "(Camden Diocese plans for new high school )." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. June 18, 2008. A01.〕〔"(New Catholic High School Planned for Gloucester County, NJ )." ''KYW 1060''. Wednesday June 18, 2008.〕 The diocese said that a survey polling parents from 15 elementary school and 30 parishes indicated support for the idea of relocating the school.〔"(Survey finds support for proposed Catholic high school in Gloucester County )." ''Diocese of Camden''. June 19, 2008.〕 A junior high (7th and 8th grades) was added in Spring 2011 following the closing of Saint Mary's Elementary School.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gloucester Catholic High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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