Holy Cross High School, New Orleans
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Holy Cross High School is a high school and middle school founded in 1879 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main founder of Holy Cross is Basil Moreau who was just recently canonized. Holy Cross High was originally named St. Isadore's College. The school's founding principle is the school code, "The Holy Cross Man." Holy Cross' mascot is the tiger and their main rival is Jesuit High School which is also located in New Orleans.
The school was established in 1879 on what had been an orphanage in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. With the division of the 9th Ward by the construction of the Industrial Canal in the early 20th century, this area became known as the Lower Ninth Ward; the area right around the school closer to the Mississippi River front became known as the "Holy Cross Neighborhood".
Holy Cross offers classes for young men for grades 5 through 12.
With Hurricane Katrina, the campus, like the majority of the city, was flooded by the Levee failures in Greater New Orleans, 2005. The school plans to relocate to a new site in the Gentilly section of the city, the former St. Francis Cabrini/Redeemer-Seton campus on Paris Avenue between Filmore and Prentiss Avenue.
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