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Benet Academy (often shortened to "Benet") is a co-educational, college-preparatory Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Since its founding in 1888, notable alumni have included Olympic athletes, professional American football players, winners of Grammy and Academy Awards, and a former Illinois attorney general.
An alumni directory compiled in 1937 reveals that older alumni have included members of the clergy, businessmen, physicians, educators, attorneys, musicians, and journalists.{{cite book|last=Mizera|first=Peter F.|title=Czech Benedictines in America: 1877–1961|publisher=Center for Slav Culture, St. Procopius College|location=Lisle, Illinois|year=1969|oclc=3379383|pages=175–76}} For the 2010–11 school year, 1,333 students were enrolled at Benet.{{cite web|title=School Information|publisher=Benet Academy|year=2011|url=http://www.benet.org/?aboutschool|access-date=April 1, 2011|archive-date=May 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504074806/http://www.benet.org/?aboutschool|url-status=live}}
Most students come from Lisle, Downers Grove, and Naperville, but students expected to graduate in 2013 came from 65 different schools and 34 different municipalities in DuPage and surrounding counties.{{Cite journal|last=Peterson|first=Patricia|journal=Benet Connections|year=2009|issue=Fall 2009|publisher=Benet Academy|title=Benet Connections}}
Admission is competitive and primarily based on the High School Placement Test, a standardized test by Scholastic Testing Service, taken in January of applicants' eighth grade year (around age 13).{{Cite news|last=Lenz|first=Linda|title=Benet gets into the ACT, touts scores|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|page=40|date=October 28, 1986}} The Chicago Sun-Times ranked Benet one of the top ten high schools in the Chicago area in 2003,{{Cite news|last1=Grossman|first1=Kate N.|first2=Rosalind|last2=Rossi|title=At the head of the class: Top high schools' grads prepped for best colleges|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|page=16|date=March 16, 2003}} and in 1999 Benet was one of two high schools in DuPage County, and 100 high schools nationwide, featured as an "Outstanding American High School" by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite news|title=Retiring principal puts students first|author=Amy Boerema|date=March 20, 2004|newspaper=Daily Herald|location=Arlington Heights, Illinois|page=1}}
Formerly known as the all-boys St. Procopius College and Academy, the school began to offer a remedial course, or a course designed to bring underprepared students to competency, to only two students on March 2, 1887. Enrollment grew to 30 high school students by 1947.{{Cite book|author=Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois|title=Illinois: a descriptive and historical guide|series=American guide series|publisher=AC McClurg|year=1947|location=Chicago, IL|page=544|isbn=1-60354-012-1}} The academy began to operate independently from the college in 1957.{{cite web|last=Illinois Benedictine College Communication Office |title=Chronological Development of St. Procopius College/Illinois Benedictine College |publisher=Illinois Benedictine College Development Office |date=June 1975 |url=http://www.ben.edu/library/asc/history_of_st_procopius_college.pdf |access-date=April 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529194816/http://www.ben.edu/library/asc/history_of_st_procopius_college.pdf |archive-date=May 29, 2010 }} The all-girls Sacred Heart Academy, founded in 1926, operated nearby.{{cite book|last=Čada|first=Joseph|title=Czech-American Catholics, 1850–1920|publisher=Benedictine Abbey Press, under the auspices of the Center for Slav Culture, St. Procopius College, Lisle, Illinois|location=Chicago|year=1964|oclc=1882096| page=64}} Due to dwindling enrollment and funding, St. Procopius Academy and Sacred Heart Academy merged in 1967 to form Benet Academy.{{Cite news|last=Pyke|first=Marni|title=An artful center Benet will honor supporter at hall dedication|newspaper=Daily Herald|page=1|date=May 17, 2001}}
Alumni
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