St. Xavier High School (Ohio) owner of Open End
Campus
St. Xavier's 110-acre (0.4 km2) suburban campus is located to the north and south of West North Bend Road, bounded by the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science to the south, Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway to the north, and residential areas to the east and west.The school grounds include a wooded walking trail, a mock courtroom, and a school history exhibit. The Fred Middendorf, S.J., Nature Trail runs about a third of a mile (0.54 km) behind the athletic fields. Indoors, the Mock Trial team makes use of a specially built classroom that imitates the layout of a courtroom. Along the school's main hallways, recent student artwork hangs beside the Living Walls project, a graphical timeline accompanying 90 years of class photos. St. Xavier maintains 11 computer labs with over 330 computers available for student use. The school library, named for alumnus and Ohio state representative John D. "Jay" Carroll III, contains 23,000 volumes. A makerspace in the Fine Arts wing offers student access to single-board microcontrollers, CNC machines, 3D printers, and large-format printers.St. Xavier's Finneytown campus features athletic facilities comparable to most colleges, including a new football stadium and indoor swimming pool which it shares with the Cincinnati Marlins. The olympic-size swimming pool seats 626. The school has one of the largest tennis court complexes in the area. St. Xavier's soccer field was home to the now-defunct Cincinnati Cheetahs professional soccer team during their 1994 season.The school's most prominent art installation is the sculpture Open End, a 1983 work by Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore.