Mission:
We seek to aid in the development of a young man intellectually aware of the world as it is, morally attuned to the value of human life and to the responsibility of using technological advances and personal ingenuity in preserving and enhancing that value, culturally refined to profit from the increased availability of freedom and leisure, socially adept at relating to others in a positive way, physically conditioned and emotionally matured to meet the demands of daily living.
About the School:
Elder High School, a Roman Catholic secondary school, seeks to serve the community in which it is situated by assisting adolescent young men in their quest to become growing, knowledgeable men. As a comprehensive high school serving young men with a wide variety of physical, intellectual, moral, cultural, and social endowments, the educational process begins with the young man himself: his strengths and weaknesses. In thus accepting the young man, we hope to assist in the development of his personality and the broadening of his horizons to the extent that, upon graduation, he is prepared to pursue whatever further development is necessary for him to make his personal contribution to life and building the Kingdom of God.
History:
In 1922 the cornerstone of the first Catholic Archdiocesan high school was placed at Vincent and Regina Avenues in Price Hill. The school was called Elder and named in honor of the third Archbishop of Cincinnati, William Henry Elder, who had served the Archdiocese from 1880 to 1904. The school was to be the first of thirteen such schools constructed in the Greater Cincinnati area.
In the spring of 1923 Elder graduated eight students from its newly completed facility. These eight were to be the first of nearly 15,000 to graduate from the same building in seventy years.
