St. Edward High School, a Catholic School in the Holy Cross Tradition, educates the minds and hearts of young men to have the competence to see and the courage to act as men of faith. In 1949, St. Edward High School was founded as a comprehensive Catholic boys high school, staffed primarily by Holy Cross Brothers from Notre Dame, Indiana, and serving mostly working class families in a blue-collar city whose history was dominated by the steel industry. To this day, while most of the faculty consists of laypersons, the spiritual dimension of Catholic education remains strong at St. Edward. Although St. Edward is an independent Catholic school, Holy Cross education entails working closely with the local church, as well as reaching out to as broad a population as possible to ensure academic, ethnic and economic diversity.
