Xavier High School - Definition and Overview

Xavier High School is a Jesuit Catholic high school located in the diverse Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Submission of TACHS (Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools) results are required for admission. The school was first founded in 1847 as the College of St. Francis Xavier.

Graduates include United States Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, and NBC weatherman, Albert Roker.

Xavier has a campus ministry department which sponsors retreats, community service programs and a junior ROTC unit (in which approximately one third of the student population is enrolled).

In 2004, Xavier announced the appointment of the first lay headmaster in the school's history.