A CENTURY OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Elder High School Opened Doors in 1922 BY KARY ELLEN BERGER
Elder High School, the oldest high school in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, has been a mainstay of Price Hill for nearly 100 years. The school, which has more than 22,000 alumni, will celebrate its 100th graduating class in 2022. The high school began when parishioners of St. Lawrence Parish in Price Hill asked to have a ninth grade, and later tenth grade, added to their elementary school in 1913. The new additions were called Elder High School in honor of William Henry Elder, the second archbishop of Cincinnati. Soon
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after, additional parishes, including St. William, Holy Family, St. Michael, St. Teresa, Blessed Sacrament, Resurrection, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Aloysius, Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Our Lady of Victory, along with Rev. Louis J. Nau of St. Lawrence, asked the archbishop at the time, Henry Moeller, for permission to begin a four-year high school. The new Elder High School opened its doors in the fall of 1922 as a coeducational school. It was only the fourth high school in Cincinnati and the city’s first Catholic diocesan school. Elder remained
