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Cathedral High School is a private, Catholic Institution in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It serves over 1,200 students in grades 9 to 12.

The school was founded as a boys' high school in 1918, and was run by the Catholic church until 1960, when it became an independent school run by the Holy Cross Brothers of Notre Dame. Without church funds, however, it ran into financial problems, and in 1972 it faced closure. It was rescued by parents and alumni, who set up a non-profit trust to take over and run the school. The trust was willing to make more sweeping changes to the way the school was run: in 1976 it moved to larger premises and began admitting girls.

While the school is still run as a Catholic organization, and Catholic teachings still form part of the curriculum, there is no requirement that students be Catholics: according to the school, 45% of students are followers of other faiths.

Clubs

Cathedral High School has a large list of clubs that can be found here. They range from clubs found in many high schools such as the school newspaper, to religiously oriented clubs such as the liturgy planning committee.

Trivia

• The buildings are connected by an underground system of tunnels.
• In 2004 the school was honored as a Blue Ribbon School.
• On the upper level in the science hallway there is a locker isolated from the all the others which goes by the name "Locker Bob".
• One of the school's buildings called Loretto Hall is supposedly haunted by the ghost of an old nun.

School Song

Cathedral's school song is called "The Fight Song". It can be heard at any Cathedral High School sporting event or pep assembly. It was composed in the 1920's by a Cathedral student. A very popular variation of the "Fight Song" is called the "Cymbal Song". The "Cymbal Song" was written in 2005 by a Mr. John Pittman. The lyrics are as follows:

"Here's to the cymbals, here's to you

Here's to your colors, gold and gold,

You go like this, and you go like this,

And sometimes you go like this!

So raise up your cymbals,

To the Lord,

The Lord of the cymbals,

Is Sirois.

Da-da da da, Da-da da da

Da-da da-da da-da

Hile Hitler!"

External links

• Cathedral High School website

• High schools in Indiana
• Indianapolis, Indiana
• Roman Catholic secondary schools
• Private schools in indianapolis