Seton Hall students follow a strong college preparatory program, with four-year requirements in English,
Mathematics and Theology. After completing a traditional core program during the first two years, students may establish a curriculum
geared to their college and career plans from a wide selection of courses in Science, History, Language, Fine Arts, English and Phys. Ed. College-level Advanced Placement courses are available in fourteen areas.
Central to the Prep experience is the diversity of the student population. With students coming from ten counties, the breadth of background the students bring to Prep academic and extracurricular
activities is a source of
great pride.Drawing students from such a wide area, indeed from more than 120 towns, even Staten Island, the Prep draws its student population from points as far afield as Jamesburg and Whitehouse
Station, to Chester and Denville, to Lyndhurst and Montville, to Pompton Plains and Kinnelon, at the same time as from 53 families from Newark and 70 from West Orange itself. The Prep offers an extensive co-curricular activities program, with numerous
academic, service, performance, cultural, publication, and recreation clubs and activities. Additionally, the Prep offers fifteen interscholastic sports, most with accompanying
sub-varsity level teams. The
main campus, immediately accessible to Interstate Route 280
and several bus and train routes, is augmented by a nearby 44 acre site, providing auxiliary athletic facilities— two new practice and game fields. Phase II of the
development of the acreage is planned for two baseball fields, six tennis courts and a locker facility.SHP takes as its mission the development of the whole man—spiritual, intellectual, social and
physical. The Prep community proceeds from a belief that growth as a whole person is not limited to secular knowledge but involves the spiritual fulfillment that has been a central concern in its educational
tradition. In as much as such growth and maturity are rooted in personal and social responsibility, a code of conduct and expectations is in place to guide the student community in their daily
activities. Firmly rooted in its Catholic identity, Seton Hall Prep seeks to foster an ecumenical and diverse community, faithful to a Judeo-Christian heritage.
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