Bishop Amat Memorial High School is a co-ed

Coeducation

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 Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

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 high school serving the San Gabriel Valley

San Gabriel Valley

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 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

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, and was founded in 1957. The campus is located in La Puente, California

La Puente, California

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, approximately 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. The coeducational student body comprises approximately 1,520 students in grades 9 through 12, making Bishop Amat the largest private high school in Los Angeles County. It is the only Catholic high school in Los Angeles County that offers the rigorous Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) (International Baccalaureate).

History

The school is named for the first Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles, the Most Reverend Thaddeus Amat y Brusi

Thaddeus Amat y Brusi

Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, C.M. was a Roman Catholic cleric who eventually became Bishop of Los Angeles, California.- Birth and Early Career:Amat was born in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, Spain on December 31, 1810. He was ordained a priest of the religious order of the Congregation of the...

, who served as the ordinary

Ordinary

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 of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1878. He founded some of the first schools in Los Angeles and invited the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

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 to open St. Vincent's College, which was the predecessor to Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

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Sports

Bishop Amat participates in the California Interscholastic Federation

California Interscholastic Federation

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 Southern Section Serra and Del Rey League.