Bellarmine College Preparatory is an all-male, Jesuit, private secondary school located in

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. Founded in 1851, it is the oldest secondary school in California and the second-oldest west of the

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. In 2020, Niche ranked Bellarmine as #1 in Best All-Boys High Schools in California.

Overview

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school in the tradition of

Saint Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, ...

, Bellarmine is a member of the

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, the Jesuit Schools Network, and the

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. As of 2021, Bellarmine led the CIF

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with 140 Division 1 titles. Bellarmine's Speech and Debate Team was ranked in the top 10 programs in the country with its policy debate team ranked #1 after winning the triple crown (NDCA Championship,

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and NDSA Nationals) in 2021. In addition, the school's

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team, Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs, has been the World Champion (2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022) for 4 of the past 10 years. The school's publications include its student newspaper, ''The Bell Online'', and its yearbook, ''The Carillon''. The school is reputed for its graduates’ contributions and powerful influence in the Bay Area. Bellarmine's list of notable alumni includes 4 Olympians (six

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combined), 2 living Billionaires, 3 Mayors of San Jose, the former team owners of the

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and Oakland Athletics, 3

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Champions, 2 Super Bowl Champions, 1

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Winner, 1 Pulitzer Prize Winner, 28 Professional

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athletes, numerous award-winning authors and several state politicians. Previous Bellarmine alumni have won prestigious postgraduate scholarships including the Rhodes Scholarship,

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, Schwarzman Scholarship,

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, and the Fulbright Awards.

History

Bellarmine was founded in 1851 by Fr. John Nobili, S.J., and his companions, as Santa Clara College, a school for secondary and college-age students. In 1912, the college was separated into 2 schools - Santa Clara University and Santa Clara Prep. After sharing the same campus for thirteen years, the secondary school moved to its current College Park Campus after purchasing the land from the University of Pacific (then known as the College of Pacific) for $77,500. In 1926 the renovated school opened its doors to a student body of 200 registered students. After its relocation, several structural changes to the school's identity followed. In 1928, the school changed its name by the persuasion of the Archbishop of San Francisco to Bellarmine College Preparatory, in honor of Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, a canonized saint and Jesuit of the sixteenth century. The school colors converted from the red and white of Santa Clara to a blue and white pattern, to honor Saint Mary, the Mother of Jesus. San Roberto Bellarmino

After

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, Fr. Gerald Sugrue S.J. modernized the school's facilities by raising funds for the establishment of the Schott Academic Center, Vincent O’ Donnell Residence Hall, Samuel A. Liccardo Center, James A. Carney Science Center, Leontyne Chapel and Matthewson Hall. These new academic buildings accompanied the development of a new gymnasium and fitness center. Bellarmine remained a boarding school until 1985, after which the institution converted to a predominantly day school. In 2001, Bellarmine celebrated its 150th anniversary in educating young men in the Jesuit tradition. In 2011, the Lorry I. Lokey Academic Center was completed after a $15 million gift from the family of the philanthropist and founder of

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. This was the single largest gift in the school's history. The new center houses over 27 classrooms, a faculty lounge and the Craft-Malcolm Family Academic Resource Center. The College Park Caltrain station is adjacent to the campus since its inception and has been a historic presence for Bellarmine's metropolitan community. Over 140 students take the train to school everyday from San Mateo county to Gilroy. The station is served by only 4 trains a day, timed to correspond with the school's hours. In recent years, amidst discussion of the station shutting down, the school has lobbied

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to avoid cutting service to the station.

Academics

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As of 2020, Bellarmine's current enrollment size is approximately 1,655 students. The average class size is 22.5 and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13:1. For the Class of 2019, 99.2% of students went to attend college. 94.7% of graduating seniors were attending a four-year institution. Every year, a high amount of Bellarmine seniors matriculate into Jesuit universities including Santa Clara University,

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, Boston College and Seattle University. In 2020, the mean ACT score among Bellarmine students was 30.0 and the mean

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score was 1346. In 2019, the school had 23 National Merit Semifinalists. Bellarmine administers an average of 1300 A.P tests each year with a pass rate of 84%. Across its 10 academic departments, the school offers 19 AP courses and 11 Honors Courses to complement its curriculum designed to meet University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) system requirements. For graduation, students are required to complete 42 credits spread out in a traditional liberal arts education with an emphasis on English, Mathematics and the Social Sciences. Every Bellarmine student is required to complete 6 semesters in Religious Studies and 2 semesters in Fitness and Health. The school offers a number of fellowships including the Steve Pinkston Fellowship to recent college graduates and graduate students, of racially and culturally diverse descent who wish to serve at Bellarmine either through teaching, coaching, counseling or faith-based ministry.

Athletics

The Bellarmine Bells host 34 teams in 13 sports in the

(WCAL) of the

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. The Bells fields teams from the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity level for the WCAL's (fall, winter, and spring) three seasons of league play. The schools also offers two sports (

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and Rugby) outside of WCAL play in the Sharks High School Ice Hockey League and the Skyhawk Conference respectively. Known for its athletics program, the school leads the CIF Central Coast Section (CCS) with 140 Team Titles and maintains several of the longest-winning streaks in section history.

Football

The Bells Football team represents Bellarmine College Preparatory in the

(WCAL) of the

. The Bell's Football is currently headed by former San Jose State Spartan and Bellarmine alum Jalal Beauchman, the 6th head coach in the program's history. The 1965 John Hanna-coached Bells outscored opponents 310-6 during a 31-game winning streak to earn the first of two mythical state titles (the other was in 1981). After his team's victory in the NorCal CIF Division 1-AA 2015 Final, Coach Mike Janda became the all-time winningest football coach in CCS History. By his retirement, the coach led the Bells to an unprecedented 12 appearances at the CCS Finals. The program has produced 5 eventual Super Bowl champions. Griffin Waiss San Benito

Swimming

Under Coach Larry Rogers, the Bellarmine Bells Swimming Team won 31 consecutive CCS titles (1984-2015) until a second-place finish to

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in 2016 snapped the school's monopoly on swimming. The swim team title streak caught the eye of ''The San Francisco Chronicle''s Mitch Stevens who wrote, "That put ellarmine Coach LarryRogers...and the Bells...above such storied high school programs as Poway of San Diego wrestling, Mission Viejo swimming and yes, even De La Salle football."

Soccer

The Bellarmine Soccer team is noted for the league's longest winning streak of 17 consecutive titles under Coach Patrick Lowney. The Bellarmine's 2002 varsity soccer team had a perfect 25-0-0 season. As of 2021, the soccer team coached by Conor Salcido '07 has won 3 of the past 5 CCS Open Division titles, a NorCal CIF Division 1 Title, and finished the 2021 season ranked #4 in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer and

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Volleyball

Bellarmine's volleyball team won nine of the thirteen CCS volleyball championships from 1997 to 2010, when coach Scott Petersen's team was ranked #5 in the country by ESPNRise and honored as having the highest grade point average in the state among boys volleyball teams. Former volleyball coach Patrick Adams remains the most successful volleyball coach in CCS history with 305 victories. In the fall, the school offers Football, Cross country,

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. For winter, teams in Soccer,

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compete. Spring season witnesses the most sports with 7 sports:

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Co-Curricular Programs

Robotics

The Robotics Team is one of the larger organizations at Bellarmine with around 80 members. The team has won the World Chairman's Award (the highest award in FIRST), and the World Championships 5 times, the most of any FIRST team, in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2022. The team also holds the record for most regional events won, having 40 regional wins to their name. In 2008, Bellarmine first entered VEX Robotics and in 2009–2010 won 16 regional competitions, 6 of them in international competition. In the 2010–2011 season, Bellarmine's VEX team 254A won the VEX World Excellence Award, the highest it confers. In 2014, the team won three regionals, the Curie Division, and World Championships. The school shares a partnership with

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in Mountain View, California. Team 254 Cheesy Poofs

Student media & publications

In 2008 Bellarmine began its own radio station, KBCP The Bell, as a legal, unlicensed station at 1650 AM which reaches a 1-mile radius of the school. Programs include 30-minute newscasts, sports shows, daily music shows, and political talk radio. In August 2013 KBCP partnered with PlayON sports to produce bellarminetv.com, which then re-associated with High School Cube. In September 2013 KBCP added home Hockey games to its covered sports. KBCP also plays music during lunch break and offers student-run programs such as The Way Too Early Show, Hammertime, The Afternoon Grind and Cloud 140. KBCP peaked at 3700 listeners during its broadcast of the Bellarmine-Saint Francis football game in 2016. The school is also host to a range of student publications. The student newspaper,
The Bell Online
', transformed into an online media source from the historic weekly-produced, ''The Cardinal'' in 2016 and publishes daily features, athletic stories and campus announcements. The yearbook, ''The Carillon'' is one of the state's oldest secondary school yearbooks and has won multiple national awards, including the

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Pacemaker Awards and the

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Crown Awards. In the past, other student publications included the ''Bellarmine Political Review'' and the ''Written Echo''.

Speech and debate

With over 100 participants and 7 coaches, Bell's large speech and debate program has experienced success at the local and national levels. In 1994, Bellarmine won the team speech and debate National Forensic League Championship in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2003 and 2004 the team won the California State Championship, then came in second in the state in 2005 when it was ranked as one of the top two teams in the nation. In 2006, its policy debate team captured the National Championship. For nine years, 2006–2014, Bellarmine's Speech and Debate program won the California State Championship, as well as in 2022. The program trains students in 12 speech events and 6 debate categories. In 2021, Bellarmine won the Policy Debate Championship, 2nd place in Congressional Debate, Top 10 in International Extemp & National Extemp and received the Bruno E. Jacobs Award, which is given to the school who has the greatest number of cumulative rounds at the national tournament across the years. Its rival high school in speech and debate is Leland High School (San Jose, California).

In popular culture

* Bellarmine's College Park Caltrain station is mentioned in

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's 1903 novel ''

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'' as the location at which the stolen canine protagonist is fenced, beginning his journey away from civilization. * In his 1960 '' Lonesome Traveler'' collection, American poet Jack Kerouac writes about watching the Bells play football in "October in the Railroad Earth."

Notable alumni

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'04 * Marv Owen '24 -

(1931–1940) * Nello Falaschi '31 - played for NFL's New York Giants * John W. Gallivan '33 - publisher of '' The Salt Lake Tribune'', 1960–1984 * Leo Righetti '44 - baseball player * Conn Findlay '48 - holds four Olympic medals, three in rowing ( 1956 gold, 1960 bronze, 1964 gold) and one in sailing ( 1976 bronze) * Wayne Belardi '48 - MLB

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'50 - California State Senator * Joe Albanese '51 -

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(MLB)

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* Jim Beall '70 - politician * Dennis Crosby '52 - singer and actor * Phillip Crosby '52 - singer and actor * Jim Small '55 -

(1955–1958) * Stephen Schott '57 - former owner of Oakland Athletics * John A. Sobrato '57 real estate developer *

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'59 - MLB pitcher and coach * Ming Chin '60 -

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of the Supreme Court of California *

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'61 - writer * Bob Gallagher '62 -

(1972–1975) *

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'63 - 61st Mayor of San Jose *

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'67 - NFL quarterback (1971–1981, 1983), Super Bowl XV champion; played in 1975

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* Jim Wilhelm '70 -

(1978–1979) * Frank C. Girardot ‘79 - Author "Name Dropper: Investigating the Clark Rockefeller Mystery" * Nick Holt '81 - defensive coordinator of

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, former head coach of

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* Sal Cesario '81 - NFL

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* Erik Howard '82 - played for NFL's New York Giants, New York Jets * David Diaz-Infante '82 - played for NFL's San Diego Chargers,

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* Randy Kirk '83 - NFL (1987–1999) * Pablo Morales '83 - Olympic gold and silver medalist (1979–1983) * Tony West '83 - 17th

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* Jim Wahler '84 - played for NFL's

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* Greg Gohr '85 -

(1993–1996) * Ron Caragher '85 -

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head coach *

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'87 - poet and literary critic * Ed Giovanola '87 -

(1995–1999) * Sam Liccardo '87 - Mayor of San Jose (2015-) * Stephen Mirrione '87 -

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-winning film editor for ''

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'' *

'88 - 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for his novel '' The Sympathizer'' * Ralph Alvarado '88 - Kentucky State Senator * Joey Manahan '89 - Hawaii State Representative and

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man * John B. Owens '89 - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge * Nick Hatzke '91 -

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player (2007–09), Houston Dynamo *

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'91 - author * Kevin McMahon '90: track & field athlete at 1996 and

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; teaches in Bellarmine's Visual and Performing Arts department * Justin Baughman '92 - MLB second baseman *

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(Lorin Ashton) '96: musician * Helmy Eltoukhy '97 - co-founder & CEO of biotech

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''Avantome'' and ''Guardant Health'' *

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player,

(2006-2015) *

Craig Bragg Craig Milton Bragg (born March 15, 1982) is a former American football wide receiver. He attended UCLA and Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. Bragg graduated with the UCLA record for career receptions (since surpassed by J ...

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National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

(NFL) wide receiver * Copeland Bryan '01 - NFL

defensive end Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football. This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations over the years have substantially changed how the position is ...

* Brian Armstrong '01 - Founder and CEO of

Coinbase Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Coinbase is a distributed company; all employees operate via remote work and the company lacks a physical headq ...

* Matt Mahan '01 - 66th Mayor of San Jose *

Sunkrish Bala Sunkrish Bala (born Sunkrish Balasubramanian May 21, 1984) is an American actor. Early life Bala was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and is of Tamil ancestry. He graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in 2002 and from the school of ...

'02 - actor * Jose Moreno Brooks '03 - actor * Francis Maka '03 - linebacker,

San Jose SaberCats The San Jose SaberCats were a professional arena football team based in San Jose, California. The SaberCats had been members of the Arena Football League (AFL) since 1995 (the year in which the team was founded); and until 2015, they belonged to ...

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...

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player (2011–2012, 2017–2020) * Alex Brightman '05 - actor * Scott Weltz '05 - U.S. Olympic Swimmer in 2012 Olympics (200 m Breaststroke) *

Tommy Medica Thomas Anthony Medica (born April 9, 1988) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres. Amateur career Medica played college baseball at Santa Clara University, aft ...

'06 - MLB (2013–14) * Mark Canha '07 - MLB first baseman *

Erik Goeddel Erik Van Norman Goeddel (born December 20, 1988) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers. Career Amateur career Goeddel attend ...

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pitcher,

New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major league ...

(2014–present) * Michael Clay '09 - Special teams Coordinator for the

* Mitchell Harrison White '13 - MLB pitcher for the

Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...

* Marc Pelosi - MLS soccer player, San Jose Earthquakes (2015–2017)

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