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About MUHS
Jesuit Tradition
The Jesuit tradition of educating the "whole person" is hallmark to Marquette High, and is what sets it apart from every other high school in the state of Wisconsin.

Lifetime Connections
The Alumni Network is more than 14,600 strong with graduates residing in all 50 states and 33 countries.
Admissions
Tradition
For nearly 160 years, Marquette High has delivered an exceptional, college-preparatory experience to young men, helping them developing spirituality, emotionally, intellectually, artistically, morally and physically. Students are immersed in a respectful, challenging, and caring environment and become part of a diverse community.

During their four years, students will develop their faith and acquire an awareness of the dignity and needs of all people. Upon graduation, they will join a distinct and vast network of Marquette High alumni around the world who are Christ-like "Men for Others."
Academics
Core Curriculum
Marquette High’s core curriculum with a strong emphasis on the humanities equips students with the ability to speak and write well, to think critically and analyze issues.

Advanced Placement
Students seeking a college-level challenge in the classroom can find it through AP courses. 726 AP exams were administered in 17 subjects.
Student Life
Student Body Profile
Marquette High seeks to create a diverse community where students are challenged to see the world from perspectives they've never experienced -- be it geographic, cultural, or socio-economic.
Co-curriculars
Marquette High offers more than 50 different homerooms and after-school clubs, including debate, robotics, Latin, Key Club, Best Buddies, rock climbing and improvisation.
Faith & Service
Spiritual Development
As a Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition, Ignatian spirituality, a spirituality for everyday life, guides students in their faith development through individual and group activities -- academic and experiential.

Men for Others
The service program at MUHS enables students to realize that their talents and gifts are to be developed for the good of the human community in pursuit of the Jesuit ideal of becoming "Men for Others."
Athletics
Team Work
At MUHS, 90% of students will play a interscholastic or club sport during their four years. At least one no-cut varsity sport and freshman teams are fielded every season in every sport.

Intramurals
The intramural program is enjoyed by 70% of students each year and offers basketball, dodgeball, kickball and indoor soccer. It's all for fun. No experience necessary.
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Supporting Marquette High helps the school achieve three key objectives: Deliver an optimal college prep curriculum for the 21^st century; Help every student succeed and flourish; and, Keep an MUHS education financially accessible to qualified students from a broad range of economic backgrounds.

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Humanities Statement

Humanities Statement

Our Way of Proceeding: Standards and Benchmarks for Jesuit Schools in the 21st Century calls for institutions to “draw upon an Ignatian worldview and the Catholic intellectual tradition in all subjects to help students think critically, ethically and compassionately about themselves and the world around them.” Marquette University High School recognizes disciplines within the Humanities as vital to this mission. We seek to engender students with the desire both to serve others and to fruitfully participate in creating beauty and communion in the world. As such, MUHS emphasizes a rigorous curriculum that not only exposes students to the many faces of the human experience, but also fosters dialogue and understanding therein.

As integral to their education, students will encounter a plurality of cultural products and perspectives. They will engage voices found in the fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of English, as well as those composed in other languages. They will pursue excellence in communicating through the written word, focusing on the mechanics of effective composition, analysis, and rhetoric. They will examine global historical events, contexts, and cultures. They will be guided to appreciate artistic beauty in the world and the integral roles that creativity and creation hold in our lives. They will undertake these pursuits as part of a rich formal education and practice in Ignatian, Catholic spirituality.

MUHS affirms these goals as inextricably linked to developing compassionate and whole students committed to justice. The second universal apostolic preference adopted by the Society of Jesus urges us “to walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice.” The Humanities curriculum across all four years of study offers our young men opportunity and encouragement to be contemplative in this regard, and it likewise frames education as the outward-facing and loving endeavor held so valuably by St. Ignatius.