All Hallows High School
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| streetaddress = 111 East 164th Street
| city = Bronx
| state = New York
| zipcode = 10452
| country = United States
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| religion = Roman Catholic
| oversight = Congregation of Christian Brothers
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| founder = Br. Joseph I. Doorley, C.F.C.
| president = Ronald Schutte
| principal = Nicholas Corrado
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| tuition = $7,200
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| conference = Catholic High School Athletic Association
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| motto = Pro Fide et Patria
| motto_translation = For Faith and Country
| accreditation = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools{{cite web|url=http://www.css-msa.org/search.php/ |title=MSA-Commission on Secondary Schools |access-date=2009-05-27 |author=MSA-CSS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514215741/http://www.css-msa.org/search.php |archive-date=May 14, 2011 }}
| rival = Cardinal Hayes High School
| mascot = The Gael
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| team_name = Gaels
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| colors = Navy Blue and White {{color box|Navy}}{{color box|white}}
| yearbook = The Halloween
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| newspaper = The Blue and White
| established = {{start date and age | 1909 | paren = y}}
| status = Defunct
| closed = June 2025
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| enrollment_as_of = 2019–2020
| teaching_staff = 35.0 {{FTE}}
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All Hallows High School (formerly known as the All Hallows Institute) was a Catholic co-ed high school in the South Bronx, New York, United States. Located at 111 East 164th Street, near Yankee Stadium, the school has an enrollment of approximately 400 boys and girls, 99% of whom are persons of color.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/all-hallows-high-school-309832|title= All Hallows High School|website=U.S. News & World Report}}
Despite sitting in the poorest Congressional district in the country, All Hallows routinely places its entire graduating class in four-year colleges. The Wall Street Journal has called the school's success in this area "stunning".Suskind, Ron (April 1, 1999). "A Bronx Tale: College Is Better Than No College, Period. You'll Thank Me Later". The Wall Street Journal. The Acton Institute has named All Hallows as one of the top-50 Catholic high schools in the United States for nine consecutive years.Fowle, Noah (November 4, 2004). "All Hallows High School Recognized as 'Top 50' Parochial School". Bronx Times-Reporter. It is the only city school in the Archdiocese of New York to have earned this distinction.
The school announced in January 2025 that it will close the following June.{{Cite web |title=All Hallows High School in South Bronx to close its doors in June |url=https://bronx.news12.com/all-hallows-high-school-in-south-bronx-to-close-its-doors-in-june |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=News 12 - Default}}
History and philosophy
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All Hallows was founded in 1909 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers at the invitation and with the help of Monsignor James Power, pastor of All Saints Church.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KL4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA309|title=The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. V. 1-3 ...|first= Remigius |last=Lafort|volume=3|page=309|year=1914|publisher=Catholic editing Company|via=Google Books}}
The order founded the school upon the principles of Blessed Edmund Rice, which center on providing moral and scholastic training, especially to the children of the poor. The first staff included the Superior Brother P. J. Ryan, and Brothers J.A. Kelly, M.S. Curtis, and P.G. Molloy.A.L. O'Toole, CFC, Challenged: The Story of Edmund Rice and the Christian Brothers in North America, (Burleigh Press: Bristol, 1975), 53-53. Originally located at 13-15 West 124th in Manhattan, the school moved to its current location in 1929. The school has more than 10,000 graduates.
All Hallows was the first school founded by the Christian Brothers in the United States.
It opened as All Hallows Collegiate Institute, having a high school and a college school of business.
For much of its history, All Hallows was an elementary school as well as a high school, but it has been exclusively the latter since 1977.
The American Eagle at the center of the All Hallows seal represents the All Hallows Community's commitment to the United States. The wreath of laurel surrounding the seal refers to victory and achievement in both athletics and scholastics. The circle surrounding the eagle serves a reminder of the school's "continuing faith" and the four corners of the seal are represented by the Gaelic symbol for the continuation of life. The Latin phrase Pro fide et patria means For faith and country.{{Cite web|url=https://www.city-journal.org/all-hallows-high-school|title=Hallowed Ground|first=Ray|last= Domanico |date=October 6, 2019|website=City Journal}}
All Hallows celebrated its centennial in 2009 and was honored with its own street name change to All Hallows Way as a parting gift from the Class of 2012. The school was also visited by Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland, during the 2012–2013 school year.{{cite web|last=Lestch|first=Corrine|title=All Hallows High School in the Bronx gets special visit from former president of Ireland Mary McAleese|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/president-ireland-visits-hallows-high-school-bronx-article-1.1180867?localLinksEnabled=false|work=Newspaper|publisher=New York Dailey News}}
The school announced in January 2025 that it will close the following June.
Sports and activities
All Hallows students participate in more than 40 sports and activities; these include the All Hallows Players (the Drama Club, noted for its Shakespeare productions), the newspaper (The Blue and White), the chess team, Big Brothers, as well as "El Club Latino". Students also have various opportunities to join clubs such as student government, the Sports Bowl, the Montefiore Medical Center Program, and intramural sports (football, dodge ball, basketball, etc.).
All Hallows has a much decorated history with athletic awards all across the senior hallway and the lobby. The more recent string of accomplishments began in Spring 2006, when the varsity baseball team won a Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) championship, and, in Winter 2007, when the Freshmen basketball team also won a CHSAA championship. The All Hallows junior varsity bowling team won the CHSAA division championship in 2011 for the second straight year. All Hallows has twice been the Bronx champions on the televised team academic game show "The Challenge" on MSG Varsity (2009 and 2012).
The teams are called The Gaels, although the mascot-emblem looks more like a leprechaun wielding a shillelagh.
The All Hallows Foundation
In 1997, graduates of the school set up The All Hallows Foundation, a 501(C)(3) organized for the purpose of supporting the school and the surrounding neighborhood. The board of directors for the All Hallows Foundation is composed primarily of All Hallows graduates who have achieved notable success in fields such as finance, technology, law, and television.
The Foundation provides funds for a scholarship fund that allows talented, but impoverished young men to attend All Hallows. It also supports facility renovations and improvements, a faculty endowment and community outreach programs. Philip J. Eagan,{{cite web|author=Patrick Benzaleski |url=http://e15minutes.com/archives/issue_76/mai_0607-03.htm |title=All Hallows High School |publisher=E15minutes.com |access-date=2013-01-04}} the board chairman of the All Hallows Foundation applies his background in finance to bring "a bold, entrepreneurial, and creative approach to inner city education."Cositore, Joseph. The All Hallows Foundation: The Mission of the All Hallows Foundation (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Foundation [2001?].
In December 2006, the Foundation received an anonymously donated check for $2 million. The donation was made by a graduate of the school.Krebbs, Paul. Good News Made Possible By You (Bronx, NY: All Hallows Times, February 2007).
Demographics
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!Year !Enrollment !Students of color !Religious Employees !Lay Employees !Total Employees |
| 1937
|0% |15 |7 |22 |
| 1946
|0% |20 |6 |26 |
| 1950
|>1% |26 |13 |39 |
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| 1985
|80% |18 |21 |39 |
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| 2003
|n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |
| 2015
|98% |2 |53 |
Notable alumni
- James B. Donovan, lawyer and negotiator involved in the 1960 U-2 incident{{cite news |title=Dr. James B. Donovan, 53, Dies; Lawyer Arranged Spy Exchange |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/20/archives/dr-james-b-donovan-53-dies-lawyer-arranged-spy-exchange-president.html |access-date=24 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=20 January 1970 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724182447/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/20/archives/dr-james-b-donovan-53-dies-lawyer-arranged-spy-exchange-president.html?searchResultPosition=1 |archive-date=24 July 2022 |url-status=live |language=en}}
- Jack Curran, winningest high school baseball and basketball coach in United States history
- Bobby Cremins, longtime NCAA men's basketball head coach (Appalachian State, Georgia Tech, College of Charleston){{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/bobby-cremins-tells-the-stories-that-bind-new-york-acc-tech/nEfjSoFUHzrhzIeQn2gbDM/|title=Bobby Cremins tells the stories that bind New York, ACC, Tech|newspaper= The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |last1=Sugiura|first1=Ken}}
- Stephen Alemais, professional baseball player{{cite news |last1=Abramson |first1=Mitch |title=Stephen Alemais, former All Hallows shortstop, transfers to Elev/8 Sports Institute in Florida in attempt to improve standing in upcoming baseball draft |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high-school/alemais-heads-south-elev-8-game-article-1.1322971 |access-date=24 July 2022 |work=New York Daily News |date=20 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707044138/https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high-school/alemais-heads-south-elev-8-game-article-1.1322971 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |url-status=live |language=en}}
- Dan Dorion, professional hockey player{{cite news |last1=Moran |first1=Malcolm |title= Players; Skating Removes Fences |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/04/sports/players-skating-removes-fences.html |access-date=24 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=4 March 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203145625/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/04/sports/players-skating-removes-fences.html |archive-date=3 February 2018 |url-status=live |language=en}}
- James Norwood, professional baseball player{{Cite web| author = Braziller, Zach | url=https://nypost.com/2011/06/24/the-posts-all-bronx-baseball-honors/|title=The Post's All-Bronx Baseball Honors | work = New York Post |date= June 24, 2011 | access-date = November 18, 2022}}
- Olden Polynice, professional basketball player{{cite web |title=Olden Polynice Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/polynol01.html |website=Basketball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=24 July 2022 |language=en}}
- Shawnelle Scott, professional basketball player{{cite web |title=Shawnelle Scott Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/scottsh01.html |website=Basketball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=24 July 2022 |language=en}}
- RaShawn Stores, college basketball coach for Manhattan College
- Tommy Whelan, professional football player{{cite web | url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/players/w/whel00300.html | title=TOMMY WHELAN | publisher=Pro Football Archives | accessdate=13 May 2025}}
- Jim White, professional football player{{cite web |title=Jim White Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WhitJi20.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=24 July 2022 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.allhallows.org/ All Hallows High School website]
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Category:Congregation of Christian Brothers secondary schools
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Category:Educational institutions established in 1909
Category:Boys' schools in New York City