St. Joseph High School is an independent, all-boys
Roman Catholic college preparatory school located on a site in
Metuchen and
Edison,
New Jersey. It draws students from a wide geographic area encompassing over forty
school districts and over seventy grammar schools in
Middlesex,
Somerset, and
Union counties, as well as other outlying areas. It is located in the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen.
St. Joseph is operated by the
Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who have been active in American education since their arrival from
Lyon,
France in 1847. From 1901 to 1961, St. Joseph’s served as a center for training and educating Brothers prior to their
apostolate. The main school building was dedicated in the spring of 1963.
There are both lay and religious teachers. As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 798 students and 49.4 faculty members (on an
FTE basis), resulting in a
student–teacher ratio of 16.2.,
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 12, 2011.
History
The Brothers of the Sacred Heart move to Metuchen
Brothers Stanislaus Florent and Philip Lindner moved into a three-story
roadhouse in 1902 with the intention of setting up a training center for novices. Their funds were limited and finding willing recruits for the novitiate proved to be difficult as few people had heard of the...
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