Cheverus High School is a private, Catholic college-preparatory school which exists to educate the students of Southern Maine according to the 500-year old Jesuit tradition of excellence in education. The purpose and objectives in the school find their inspiration in the insights of the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). Ignatius' vision of the "magis" challenges the entire Cheverus community to seek the "greater good" and to embody this vision by becoming men and women for others.