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Saint Joseph High School began its existence in 1960 as a comprehensive college preparatory high school through the combined efforts of Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago, and the Brothers of the Christian Schools.  Saint John Baptist De LaSalle founded the Order of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1680 for the purpose of providing a Christian education for youth.  The Brothers brought De LaSalle's excellent educational theories of Lasallian education to Westchester, and the western suburbs in 1960 and today, together with their lay colleagues and associates, the Brothers continue this Lasallian education to this very day.

In the very beginning, the Christian Brothers envisioned a Saint Joseph High School community in Westchester wherein young men from diverse economic, social and cultural backgrounds would come together and learn to live, work and relate to one another to make a better world.  That mission is just as real today with Brothers and lay colleagues now sharing that mission.  Our world, now more than ever, desperately needs leaders of tomorrow who have been trained to understand, to converse with and have compassion for all children of God. 

"Our mission at Saint Joseph's is to prepare our students as leaders outside the classroom. We nurture and encourage leadership in today's students and look for it in tomorrow's students," says David McCreery, President of Saint Joseph High School.

Saint Joseph High School is a Catholic, Christian education community formed in the Lasallian tradition whose mission is to provide a Christian education for young men of diverse economic and cultural backgrounds. The students who attend St. Joseph are inspired to discover their God-given talents, and they are empowered to achieve their potential as compassionate men of faith.

Saint Joseph High School is a unique school because it more accurately reflects an extended family that the typical "institutional-educational factory" as commonly portrayed in the media. Simply, Saint Joseph High School truly cares for the students and staff who enter the school doors each and every students and staff who enter the school doors each and every day.

Saint Joseph High School is located in and is a vital part of the Westchester community. Saint Joseph primarily serves students from the western suburbs and the City of Chicago: from the Eisenhower Expressway to the Stevenson Expressway from Route 83 to Pulaski and from Midway Airport to DuPage County St. Joseph students come from poor families, wealthy families; they are white, black, Hispanic, Asian; and they are Catholic and Protestant.

If you have any questions or would like more information about Saint Joseph High School, please call the Admissions Office at: (708) 562-8701 or (708) 562-7488.

From the Westchester Chamber of Commerce, Community Guide, 2002