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Nouvel Catholic Central High School is a private, Catholic high school located in Saginaw Charter Township, Michigan and serving the Saginaw region. Nouvel is a high school that enrolls approximately 500 students. The school was formed in 1984 as a consolidation of the three then-remaining Saginaw area Catholic high schools, Saints Peter and Paul, Saint Stephen's, and Saint Mary's Cathedral High Schools.
Prior to the existence of Nouvel Catholic Central High School and Saints Peter and Paul High School, the school building, which also houses the offices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, was the Saint Paul Seminary. That name is still inscribed in stone above the front door of Nouvel High School.
The school is named for Father Henri Nouvel, a 17th Century French Jesuit missionary who is locally recognized as the first European to have visited the Saginaw River Valley region. A monument recognizing Fr. Nouvel and his contributions sits on Ojibway Island in the City of Saginaw.
Academics
In 2007, Nouvel was recognized by the Acton Institute's Catholic High School Honor Roll as one of the top fifty Catholic high schools in the country. There are approximately 1,300 Catholic high schools in the U.S.A. Nouvel was singled out as one of the best among the top fifty for its teaching of social studies.
Nouvel has an excellent reputation, academically speaking. It uses a weighted grading scale, with Honors and AP level classes giving higher point values than normal classes for the same grade.
The school produces a newspaper monthly. The paper is written and compiled by students in the Newspaper class.
The school has an Academic Olympics and a Science Olympiad Team, but neither has won any great honors recently.
Sports
The Nouvel Panthers compete as Independents during the regular season. Although the school has enjoyed a fair amount of athletic success, the 2006-2007 school year was arguably the school's most notable in athletic achievement. The Nouvel Football and Girls Basketball teams won State Championships, and in doing so became the first school in MHSAA history to have both teams go undefeated in the same season. The same year, Nouvel finished as State Runner-Up in Boys Basketball and a State Semifinalist in Baseball.
In the record-breaking 2007-2008 year:
The Nouvel Varsity Pom Pon team won their very first Class C State Title.
The Nouvel boys won a second straight MHSAA Division 6 state championship in football.
The Nouvel Girls Varsity Basketball team also won back to back state championships in Class C. This marks the first time in Michigan High School sports history that a school's boys football team and girls basketball team have won state titles in consecutive years.
In 2008, Sports Illustrated named Nouvel the number 1 high school athletic program in Michigan, and 32nd nationally.
External links
Saginaw Diocese
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