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Marymount High on the corner of East 126th Street and Granger Road. In 1954, voters of Bedford approved a bond issue for new Bedford High, which is currently on Northfield Road. On 10 January 1956, Bedford broke ground for their new high school, 20 days later on 30 January 1956, the Marists broke ground on their $ 1.89 million high school across the street from new Bedford High. The Marists named their new high school, St. Peter Chanel High School, named after the first saint of order, two years before
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In the 1990–91 school year, St. Peter Chanel had a fire in its chemistry laboratory. According to the
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On 7 September 1957, St. Peter Chanel opened with 61 Freshmen. The school was still under construction. There was no football field and baseball diamonds for new school. That same day new
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In the mid-1980s, St. Peter Chanel faced closure or co-education for girls; the choice was co-education. In the 1986–87 school year the first girls entered St. Peter Chanel, as nearby Lumen
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On 30 March 1962 St. Peter Chanel had to expand the school, that same year St. Peter Chanel established WCHS-TV, making St. Peter Chanel the first high school in
Cleveland to have a closed circuited TV network. In 1963, the expansion was completed, the 1963 section harmonizes with the 1957 section
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In the early 1990s, St. Peter Chanel had a notorious losing streak in football. From 1990 to 1994 the
Firebirds were 0-50, until September 1994, when St. Peter Chanel defeated neighboring Garfield Heights by a score of 36–0, and the streak was over. That season the Firebirds finished 6–4 overall
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Francis Hoban purchased 94 acres (380,000 m) of the Tarbell estate on Northfield Road for either a new parish or a high school. In 1951, Monsignor Joseph Heruday, a priest at St. Wenceslas Parish, suggested that Archbishop Hoban establish a new parish to help ease
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St. Peter Chanel High School was designed by George W. Stickle and associates of Cleveland. The school is a steel structure with an ashlar limestone brick pattern. The school building is a four-story structure.
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St. Peter Chanel's gymnasium held an estimated 2,400-3,000 people. The gymnasium had naming rights. Ripp Field (1973) held 3,500 fans, and added an all-weather track in 2006.
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