City: Savannah, GA

Category: Education

Telephone: (912) 644-7000

Address: 6502 Seawright Dr.

Description: This Catholic high school for boys dates back to 1902, when it was founded on Bull and 32nd Streets as Benedictine College. Having sons become “BC boys” is a prestigious tradition in many Savannah families, a circumstance that has led this military school for 9th through 12th graders to have an extremely faithful and active group of alumni. Sixty percent of those who attend the school are Catholic, but the remainder of the student body is as diverse as the faculty, which is composed of Benedictine priests and monks, laymen and laywomen, and military retirees. Enrollment is about 400. Benedictine is a college-prep school, and 95 percent of graduates attend college. The school is housed in large, contemporary-style buildings on 100 acres in the Southside. It was moved there in the early 1960s; until that time, students received military training during all four years of school. Since then, however, Junior ROTC classes have been mandatory only for freshmen and sophomores and optional for juniors and seniors. More than 90 percent of upperclassmen continue to participate in JROTC, training that can give them an advantage should they elect to attend a military college or enter the armed forces out of high school.