Company Profile
Chaminade College Preparatory School
Company Overview
Chaminade College Preparatory School, an independent, Catholic Day and Resident school, sponsored by the Marianist Province of the United States, is dedicated to developing the inherent spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical potential of young men in Sixth through Twelfth Grade so they are prepared for success in college and life and ultimately become the men the world needs them to be.
Company History
Chaminade College Preparatory school is named for the man who founded the Brothers of Mary. William Joseph Chaminade was born in France in 1761. The fourteenth of fifteen children, he became a diocesan priest, living through one of the most dangerous periods in history, the French Revolution. France at this time underwent a period of upheaval in which the Catholic Church was, to say the least, unpopular with the “enlightened” men who governed the country after the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Religion was on the decline; churches had been taken over by the government. Father Chaminade was forced into exile in Spain.
The Society of Mary purchased the property for Chaminade College Preparatory School in January, 1906. Three years later ground was broken for the administration and classroom building. In the summer of 1910, the first faculty was announced. In the first year there were two students in the fifth grade, three in the sixth, and two in the eighth. The high school held seven students. Chaminade was described as “A Catholic boarding and day college for boys and young men, located near the Creve Coeur Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway, three miles west of Clayton on Denny Road (now Lindbergh Boulevard)."