Bellarmine College Preparatory
Bellarmine College Preparatory is an all-boys, Jesuit, private secondary school located in San Jose, California.[3] Founded in 1851, it is the oldest Jesuit secondary school in California and the second-oldest west of the Mississippi River.[4]
For the school in Tacoma, Washington, see Bellarmine Preparatory School.Bellarmine College Preparatory
Men For and With Others[1]
1851
Fr. John Nobili, SJ[2]
053080
Chris Meyercord
Fr. Mario Prietto, S.J.
Rod Jemison
145 lay, 20 Jesuits
1,655 (2021)
27 acres (110,000 m2)
Blue, light blue, white
WCAL (13 sports)
Bellarman the Bell
The Bell Online
The Carillon
US$119 Million (2021)
US$24,890 (2021-2022)
Co-Curricular Programs[edit]
Robotics[edit]
The Robotics Team, named The Cheesy Poofs, has over 100 members. The high school competes in two different divisions: FTC and FRC. The team has won the World Chairman's Award (the highest award in FIRST) in 2004, and the World Championships 5 times (the most of any FIRST team) in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2022.[16] The team also holds the record for most regional events won, having 44 regional wins to their name.[17] In 2008, Bellarmine first entered VEX Robotics and in 2009–2010 won 16 regional competitions, 7 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 NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. In 2022, Bellarmine's Team 254F won the VEX World Championships in Dallas Texas.[18]
