When Xavier High School opened in 1952, it was the first high
school in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Bishop Thomas
Feeney, S.J., D.D. from the New York Province of the Society of
Jesus (the Jesuits) originally envisioned a minor seminary to
train local clergy. Soon after, Xavier Seminary became the first
college preparatory school in the Western Pacific.
Today, Xavier High School continues to
provide a rigorous college preparatory education as a Catholic
school in the Jesuit tradition. With an international staff of
Jesuits, Jesuit Volunteers, alumni, and local people, Xavier has
an enrollment of 151 students (96 boys, 65 girls), serving the
islands nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic
of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
