Bishop Kearney High School (Irondequoit, New York)
private Roman Catholic High School in Irondequoit, New York, USA
Bishop Kearney High School is a Roman Catholic educational institution in Irondequoit, New York, USA, a suburb of Rochester. It is a private high school with a middle school subdivision, serving students in grades 6 through 12. The school occupies a 42-acre (170,000 m2) campus near the geographic center of Irondequoit, just 1 mile from Lake Ontario, and 10 minutes away from downtown Rochester.
Origin and history
Bishop Kearney High School was co-founded by Edmund Rice and the Congregation of Christian Brothers of Ireland, with the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The school was named after James E. Kearney of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester. It opened in 1962, accepting only freshmen at the time. Those freshmen remained the school's upperclassmen throughout their tenure, so they became the first graduates in 1966. It was opened at the same time as a nearly identical sister school, Cardinal Mooney High School, which closed in 1989. The school's first principal was Joseph M. Clark of the Congregation of Christian Brothers of Ireland.
Recent events
On February 13, 2007, the school announced that local billionaire Tom Golisano would be donating a substantial amount to the school for improvements in technology.
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