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Guided by our Benedictine heritage, Benet Academy is a special community where students discover, embrace, and achieve their excellence. Our holistic educational approach, which balances disciplined work and prayer, nurtures students to use their God-given gifts in service of one another.
It means that at our core, Benet is built around prayer, stability, discipline, humility, hospitality, and community. Year after year, we welcome a diverse freshmen class of over three hundred students who come from over one hundred different Chicagoland schools.
Benet Academy (/ ˈ b ɛ n ɛ t / BEN-et) is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet.
As part of the application process for all 8th grade applicants, Benet Academy requires the HSPT for its entrance exam. Students interested in taking the HSPT will automatically be registered to take the exam as part of their online application.
Benet Academy is a highly rated, private, Catholic school located in LISLE, IL. It has 1,221 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 17 to 1. Tuition is $14,950 for the highest grade offered. After graduation, 99% of students from this school go on to attend a 4-year college.
Early life and education. Benét was born on July 22, 1898, in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania [1] to James Walker Benét, a colonel in the U.S. Army. His grandfather and namesake led the Army Ordnance Corps from 1874 to 1891 as a brigadier general and served in the Civil War.
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