Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic President John A. Jackson Faculty 90 full-time Mascot Hawk | Established September, 1959 Principal Joseph J. Brennan Phone +1 401-739-3450 | |
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Bishop Hendricken High School (or Hendricken) is a Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school located in Warwick, Rhode Island, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.
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- Academics
- Athletics
- Facilities
- Controversies
- Notable alumni
- References
Founded by the Brothers of the Holy Cross in 1959, and named in honor of the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence, Thomas Francis Hendricken, the school's faculty was long composed of both lay and religious individuals. The Congregation of Christian Brothers provided staff for the school after the Holy Cross Brothers' departure in 1971 until 2011.
The school's current president is John A. Jackson '71 and its principal is Joseph J. Brennan '72.
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Academics
Hendricken offers instruction in the arts and sciences. The school offers Advanced Placement courses in English, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, European History, United States History, French and Spanish.
Athletics
Bishop Hendricken has an accomplished and comprehensive athletic program with a total of forty teams in fourteen leagues as well as club sports. It is a member of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL). Hendricken was noted in 2008 by Sports Illustrated magazine for having the best athletic program in the state of Rhode Island.
Facilities
In 1997 and early-1998, the school built a new 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) South Gymnasium; a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) outdoor street hockey/basketball area; a redesigned West Gate on Oakland Beach Avenue; and a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) west wing of classrooms.
In 2006, a new 350-seat theater was erected, as were 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of new classrooms (all equipped with SmartBoard technology), and a new band suite.
Controversies
Current president John A. Jackson attracted criticism after writing a letter to the editor of The Providence Journal titled "Obama's immoral position on gay marriage." A Facebook group was created to protest Jackson's comments, attracting hundreds of students and alumni.
In 1986 the school's then-principal Br. John Walderman was arrested for soliciting sex from an underage boy. The case was dismissed a year later. When it was discovered Walderman had then been moved to another all-boy high school in Harlem, New York, Walderman became a notable figure in the Sexual abuse scandal in the Congregation of Christian Brothers.