Music Facilities Band room, choral gallery and individual voice and instrumental practice rooms were constructed in what was formerly the Brothers' residence. . Since 1861, St. Patrick High School has addressed the educational needs of our city's young men and, in so doing, established its reputation as an outstanding educational institution. . The Christian Brothers originally founded the school as a two-year educational program designed to teach the sons of the new and emerging immigrant communities surrounding the area of Adams and DesPlaines. . St. Patrick Academy received official accreditation from the State of Illinois in 1933 and is proud to be Chicago's oldest Catholic high school for boys. . Today, after 140 years of providing excellence in education, St. Patrick High School remains vital and vibrant in its educational mission, and it is vigorously preparing to meet the exciting academic demands and challenges of the next century. .
Education is an evolutionary process.
Information changes, technology changes and people change. What hasn't changed, however, is St. Patrick's commitment to educational excellence, moral and spiritual development, and the ideals of Christian Brothers' founder St. John Baptist de La Salle. . One of the priorities of the Lasallian Mission always has been to serve the poor. We at St. Patrick interpret that to mean not just the economically disadvantaged but the spiritually, culturally and academically ill-prepared as well. While we take great pride in our honors and college preparatory students, we have equal or sometimes even greater pride in our academically challenged students who truly succeed. .