Maria Regina High School

In 1957 Maria Regina High School was proposed by Cardinal Spellman and opened, temporarily, in what is now our convent. The Sisters of the Resurrection were tasked with founding the first Archdiocesan girls’ high school in Westchester County, which they did with love and devotion. The building of the new school soon began and, on February 2, 1959, Maria’s first freshmen and sophomores walked across the temporary gravel path to our current school. Maria Regina has, and will continue to be a stronghold of Catholic education. For over sixty years, approximately nine thousand young women have graduated from this school and have gone on to higher education, well prepared for their future endeavors attributable to the instruction and guidance they received from a truly dedicated staff.

Admission into Maria Regina is determined through the student's results on the TACHS examination. Maria Regina also looks at the students academic record for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, and results on standardized examinations for the 6th and 7th grade.

Maria Regina offers a rigorous college preparatory program. Graduation requires successful completion of the four-year course of study. A total of at least 26 credits is required. The Maria Regina program includes four years of mathematics, english, social studies, and theology; three years of science and a foreign language; and one year of art and music, although many students opt to take four years of science and a foreign language, and more than one year of art. Physical Education and Health are also requirements for graduation. Honors classes are available in all disciplines, except theology, and AP classes are offered in classes such as Biology, Chemistry, English Literature, American History, and European History. There is also a wide variety of electives to choose from for juniors and seniors, such as Introduction to Law, 3D Printing, and Criminal Justice.

Maria Regina also sponsors the College Link Program, in which college courses offered at Iona College and St. Thomas Aquinas College can be taken by MRHS students. Students enrolled in this program have the opportunity to earn college credits that can be transferred to their colleges of choice.

Maria Regina has two wireless computer labs with a total of fifty computer workstations and a high-speed laser jet printer. There are 15 computer workstations in the library and another laser jet printer. There are also 18 SmartBoards in classrooms through the building.

Maria Regina High School is an active member in the Catholic High School Athletic Association.[3] Other member high schools include Cardinal Spellman, Mt. St. Ursula, Preston, and Sacred Heart. All Maria Regina teams also compete in non-conference tournaments, games, and matches so that the schedules are highly competitive. Athletes are required to successfully complete and maintain the same courseload as other students. Over one-fourth of the student body participates in interscholastic after-school athletics programs.

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