Seton Catholic College Preparatory High School is a

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

within the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle ''Formerly known as Diocese of Nesqually, 1850-1907.'' The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle is an ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church ( particularly the Roman Catholic or Latin Church) located in the U.S. state of ...

Vancouver, Washington Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Clark County. Incorporated in 1857, Vancouver has a population of 190,915 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Was ...

, United States. The school is named after

Elizabeth Ann Seton Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. After her death, she became the first person bo ...

, the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

History

Seton opened in 2009 with 30 Ninth graders and 11 tenth graders. It is the first Catholic high school in southwest Washington in 43 years. In Seton's second year, they had 84 students in three classes, Freshmen, Sophomore, and Junior. The third year, they had 119, with Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors attending. Seton was housed in a leased building, with no gymnasium or athletic fields, until 2016 when it opened a new school building on land it owned.

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* High schools in Clark County, Washington Catholic secondary schools in Washington (state) Educational institutions established in 2009 2009 establishments in Washington (state) High schools within the Archdiocese of Seattle Schools in Vancouver, Washington High schools in Vancouver, Washington {{Washington-school-stub