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St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool

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Type
  
Academy

Executive Headteacher
  
L.D Rippon

Founder
  
Society of Jesus

Number of students
  
1,297

Religion
  
Roman Catholic

Chair
  
H. N. King

Phone
  
+44 151 288 1000

Established
  
Thursday 27 October 1842

Address
  
Woolton Hill Rd, Liverpool L25 6EG, UK

Motto
  
Jesus came that we might have life, "........life in all its fullness." Jn 10:10

Colors
  
Black, Blue, Maroon, Light blue

Similar
  
St Julie's Catholic High Sch, The Academy of Saint F, St Edward's College, Saint Francis Xavier's, (LIVERP COLLEGE)

St Francis Xavier's College is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Woolton, Liverpool, England. Year 7 to Year 11 are male only, whereas the Sixth Form (years 12 and 13) are coeducational.

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The College is under the trusteeship of the Brothers of Christian Instruction. Their mission is that of their founder, Jean Marie de la Mennais, ‘To make Jesus better known and loved’.

The school is a specialist school for Mathematics and Computing, and was the first school in Liverpool to gain specialist school status in that category.

Origins and History

The college was founded in 1842 in association with Stonyhurst College, Lancashire by the Society of Jesus which is a Roman Catholic religious order.

1842–1843: Soho Street

The college had a rector from 1842 to 1844. It had two pupils.

1843–1845: St. Anne Street

A year later, it had a dozen pupils. Father Francis Lythgoe moved the college to St. Anne Street where it stayed until 1845.

1846–1877: Salisbury Street

In 1844 Father Johnson took over from Father Francis Lythgoe and moved his 24 pupils to the newly opened Presbytery on Salisbury Street. Father Collyns took over the college in 1853.

With more than 50 pupils the rector Father Collyns decided that a new premises was needed. By 1856 the college had its own building built alongside the Presbytery and in 1877 a new college was built on 6 Salisbury Street.

Second College Building

The newest Salisbury Street building was designed by Henry Clutton, a Catholic architect. He used the designs of Father Vaughan as the bases of his designs. The new college was completed in the summer of 1877 and cost £30,000.

Move to Woolton

In 1961 the college was transferred as a grammar school to its present twenty-six acre site at High Lee, Woolton. From 1984-1990 the Lower School site for Years 7, 8 and 9 was located on Queens Drive (Formerly Cardinal Newman RC) in Wavertree L15. Later, the Lower School was re-sited with the Upper School at High Lee. In 1990, the college opted out of local authority control, becoming a grant-maintained school. The college was granted Technology College status from April 1996. In September 1999 it became a Foundation School. In 1992, the college became co-educational in the sixth form and in September 2000 the De La Mennais Sixth Form Centre was opened.

School choir

The choir was formed in 1994 and has performed in front of Pope John Paul II. They have toured Europe and the United States, and gained a place in the Guinness Book of Records for singing at every cathedral in England and Wales.

The school sang on the reworked version of The Farm's 1990 hit "Alltogethernow", remixed by BBC Radio 1's DJ Spoony. The single, which reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart, was the official song for the England football team at the UEFA Euro 2004 competition. It was performed by the choir on Top of the Pops in 2004.

Notable alumni

  • Peter Baxendell – former Shell executive
  • James Clement Baxter – Liberal politician and former Chairman of Everton
  • Charles Brabin – American film director
  • Tom Cannon – Professor of Strategic Development at the University of Liverpool
  • Sir Bernard Caulfield – former High Court judge on the Queen's Bench
  • Gabriel George Coury – VC winner
  • Chris Crookall – actor
  • Dixie Dean – professional footballer
  • Ryan Doyle - World freerunning champion 2007 and 2011
  • Walter Bryan Emery – Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London from 1951–70
  • Jon Flanagan – English Footballer who plays for Liverpool F.C.
  • Paul Gallagher – Archbishop
  • John Gregson – actor
  • Franny Griffiths - Musician for indie rock band Space
  • Augustine Harris – RC Bishop of Middlesbrough from 1978–92, Prison Chaplain to HM Prison Liverpool from 1952–65
  • George Hartland – Conservative MP for Norwich from 1931–5
  • Paul Aloysius Kenna – recipient of the VC in the Sudan Campaign
  • Sammy Lee – ex-professional footballer and Assistant Manager of Liverpool Football Club
  • George Lynskey – High Court judge on the (former) King's Bench
  • Vincent Malone – Bishop
  • Jimmy McGovern – BAFTA award-winning English television scriptwriter
  • Thomas Moran – food scientist, Director of Research at the Ministry of Food from 1940-6
  • Mike Newell – professional footballer
  • Laurence O'Keeffe – Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1988–91, and to Senegal from 1982-5
  • Edward J. Phelan – Director-General of the International Labour Organization
  • Paul Raymond – publisher of pornographic magazines such as Men Only, Soho property developer, and proprietor of strip clubs
  • Peter Serafinowicz – comic actor, writer, voice artist and composer
  • Leslie Stuart – composer of Edwardian musical comedies
  • Joseph Toner - Representative of the University of Liverpool
  • Neil Ward – Chief Operating Officer of HM Courts Service from 2006-7
  • Tony Warner – professional footballer
  • James Webb – Commissioner of the Inland Revenue from 1968–78
  • Michael Xavier - musical theatre actor and Olivier Award nominee
  • References

    St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool Wikipedia