Marist School (Georgia)
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Marist School is an independent private Roman Catholic college preparatory school
located in the Brookhaven
area of unincorporated DeKalb County
, Georgia, United States, north of the city of Atlanta
. Founded in 1901, it is operated independently of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
.
in 1901, opening its doors on October 2 of that year. The school originated as the boy's military school Marist College, and was located in a three-story schoolhouse on Ivy Street, now called Peachtree Center Avenue, in downtown Atlanta
.
Juniors and seniors are limited to three AP courses per year. The most rigorous curriculum usually contains 5-7 AP courses over four years. Students enroll by permission only.
The school has won either the AAA or AAAA Georgia Director's Cup (going to the best overall sports program, sorted by class) every year since the creation of the award in 1999. Marist has won multiple state championships in football, baseball, softball, men's basketball, volleyball, men's and women's tennis (12 straight from 1995–2006), women's golf, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's swimming, and men's and women's soccer, to name a few.
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Catholic school
Catholic schools are maintained parochial schools or education ministries of the Catholic Church. the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system...
located in the Brookhaven
Brookhaven, Georgia
Brookhaven is an unincorporated community located on the western edge of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta. Most of the area was formerly incorporated as the city of North Atlanta, which disincorporated during the 1960s...
area of unincorporated DeKalb County
DeKalb County, Georgia
DeKalb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population of the county was 691,893 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is the city of Decatur. It is bordered to the west by Fulton County and contains roughly 10% of the city of Atlanta...
, Georgia, United States, north of the city of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. Founded in 1901, it is operated independently of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southeastern United States. It is composed of the northern counties of the state of Georgia and is led by a prelate archbishop, who is also pastor of the mother church, the...
.
History
Marist School was founded by the Society of Mary (Marists)Society of Mary (Marists)
The Society of Mary , is a Roman Catholic religious congregation or order, founded by Father Jean-Claude Colin and a group of other seminarians in France in 1816...
in 1901, opening its doors on October 2 of that year. The school originated as the boy's military school Marist College, and was located in a three-story schoolhouse on Ivy Street, now called Peachtree Center Avenue, in downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...
.
Marist School Academic Distinctions
- AP Art History program named the top program among schools of similar size internationally and nationally and named an exemplary program in the Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2006.
- A Marist science teacher received the 2007 Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Georgia from the National Association of Biology Teachers.
- A Marist social studies teacher was named the 2009 Distinguished Educator of the year by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust for his excellence in the teaching of a course on that topic.
- Since 2000, Marist has been one of the few schools to offer an Advanced Placement Summer Institute using its own faculty exclusively as consultants. Seven Marist teachers, six of whom are currently certified by the College Board, consult in the AP Summer Institute.
The Faculty and Staff
Teachers average 20 years' experience. Advanced degrees are held by 76% of the faculty. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11:1, and the average class size is 18.Advanced Placement Examinations
In the period 2007-2009, 1768 Advanced Placement examinations were taken and 95% of the exam scores were 3 or higher. Students received an average score of 4.3 on the AP exams in the same time periodJuniors and seniors are limited to three AP courses per year. The most rigorous curriculum usually contains 5-7 AP courses over four years. Students enroll by permission only.
Athletics
In 2004, Sports Illustrated ranked Marist #15 on its list of the best athletic programs in the country. More than 80 percent of the school's students participate in at least one of the school’s 70 interscholastic athletic teams.The school has won either the AAA or AAAA Georgia Director's Cup (going to the best overall sports program, sorted by class) every year since the creation of the award in 1999. Marist has won multiple state championships in football, baseball, softball, men's basketball, volleyball, men's and women's tennis (12 straight from 1995–2006), women's golf, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's swimming, and men's and women's soccer, to name a few.
| State Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Sport | Champions | Year(s) | Runners-up | Year(s) |
| Fall | Cross country Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road... , Boys |
8 | 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 | 6 | 1982, 1983, 1984, 1996, 1998, 2006 |
| Cross country, Girls | 12 | 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 | 2 | 2005, 2007 | |
| Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by... |
2 | 1989, 2003 | 8 | 1948, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, 2006, 2008 | |
| Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand... |
2 | 2008, 2009 | 0 | ||
| Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive... |
9 | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006 | 10 | 1987, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 | |
| Winter | Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... , Boys |
3 | 1989, 1994, 2000 | 3 | 1986, 1987, 1988 |
| Basketball, Girls | 0 | 2 | 2006, 2007 | ||
| Swimming and Diving Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native... , Boys |
7 | 1966, 1967, 1968, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009 | 6 | 1959, 1965, 1969, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
| Swimming and Diving, Girls | 7 | 1989, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 | 7 | 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 | |
| Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position... |
2 | 1974, 1975 | 1 | 1976 | |
| Spring | Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... |
12 | 1947, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2011 | 7 | 1978, 1979, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2006 |
| Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... , Boys |
7 | 1961, 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 | 2 | 2002, 2008 | |
| Soccer, Boys | 2 | 2006, 2009 | 1 | 1998 | |
| Soccer, Girls | 8 | 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009 | 2 | 1999, 2000 | |
| Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... , Boys |
12 | 1979, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009 | 9 | 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2008 | |
| Tennis, Girls | 20 | 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 | 8 | 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2007 | |
| Track Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area... , Boys |
0 | 1 | 2004 | ||
| Track, Girls | 0 | 2 | 1993, 2004 | ||
| Total | 113 | 77 | |||
Notes
- Football Overall Record is 607 Wins - 307 Loses - 38 Ties (through 2008 Season)
- Girls Tennis team won the 1987 National High School Championship
"9 in '09"
The 2008-2009 school year stands as a historical year for both the school and Georgia high school sports history. In 2009, Marist won nine Georgia state championships (Boys Cross Country, Girls Cross Country, Softball, Boys Swimming and Diving, Girls Swimming and Diving, Boys Tennis, Girls Tennis, Girls Soccer, and Boys Soccer) breaking the Georgia state and Marist's previous record. Marist was also the Georgia state runner-up in Football and Volleyball.Extracurricular Activities
Marist School provides students with a wide variety of activities relating to and outside of the academic and athletic realms. School programs, which are sponsored by a staff or faculty member, total over 50. Student organizations include those centered around classes and languages, sports, arts and performance and service. The campus's ministry program fosters retreat programs, student orientation leaders, Eucharistic ministers and community service outreach trips and organizations.Traditions
The Marist uniform is a tradition that has changed little over the decades. Boys wear gray trousers with a belt, a blue, yellow or white oxford shirt and specified shoes. Girls wear a Marist plaid skort with the oxford shirt and saddle shoes. During the winter, all students wear a navy blazer or letter jacket and boys wear a Marist tie. Since its inception, approximately 25% of the Marist student body have been students from other faith traditions. Events include St. Peter Chanel Day, an outdoor field day in the spring, as well as Holiday Traditions, an arts and crafts fair held in October.Facilities
Marist School facilities include 77 acres (311,608.2 m²), 18 buildings, seven playing fields, a chapel, several computer labs, a three story library, a choral studio, a dance studio, a band room, two art studios, a 4,400 seat stadium, an aquatic center for swimming and diving, a cross country track, and three gymnasiums.Notable alumni
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