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1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION |
2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to |
3 | | congratulate St. Francis High School, located in Wheaton, on |
4 | | being named a 2023 Exemplary High-Performing National Blue |
5 | | Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education; and |
6 | | WHEREAS, Since 1982, the National Blue Ribbon Schools |
7 | | Program annually recognizes public and private elementary, |
8 | | middle, and high schools based on their overall academic |
9 | | excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among |
10 | | student subgroups; and |
11 | | WHEREAS, Opened in 1957, St. Francis High School is a |
12 | | Catholic, college preparatory learning community that promotes |
13 | | spiritual, academic, physical, social, and emotional |
14 | | development in its students; and |
15 | | WHEREAS, St. Francis High School is one of only four high |
16 | | schools in Illinois and one of 353 schools nationwide to be |
17 | | named a Blue Ribbon School this year; and |
18 | | WHEREAS, St. Francis High School is the only high school |
19 | | in Wheaton, public or private, and the only Catholic high |
20 | | school in the western suburbs to ever be named a Blue Ribbon |
21 | | School; it is also the only private high school to win the |