Bishop Hendricken High School

Bishop Hendricken High School is a Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school located in Warwick, Rhode Island, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.Founded by the Brothers of the Holy Cross in 1959, and named in honor of the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence, Thomas Francis Hendricken, the school's faculty was long composed of both lay and religious individuals. The Congregation of Christian Brothers provided staff for the school after the Holy Cross Brothers' departure in 1971 until 2011.The school's current president is John A. Jackson '71 and its principal is Joseph J. Brennan '72.AcademicsHendricken offers instruction in the arts and sciences. The school offers Advanced Placement courses in English, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, European History, United States History, French and Spanish.AthleticsBishop Hendricken has an accomplished and comprehensive athletic program with a total of forty teams in fourteen leagues as well as club sports. It is a member of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL). Hendricken was noted in 2008 by Sports Illustrated magazine for having the best athletic program in the state of Rhode Island.FacilitiesIn 1997 and early-1998, the school built a new 16000sqft South Gymnasium; a 5000sqft outdoor street hockey/basketball area; a redesigned West Gate on Oakland Beach Avenue; and a 6000sqft west wing of classrooms.