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Academic
Departments
We Are Always Learning and Growing
Every year, every decade, we’ve pushed boundaries. Our goal is to always rise up to be the best. As a result, we focus on thinking bigger, doing better, and always going greater. Marist’s 55-acre campus has expanded over our 60 years to meet the needs of its students and provide state-of-the-art facilities for learning, competing, and performing. Experience life as a RedHawk first hand to be part of the Marist tradition.
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Classrooms
Our classrooms prepare students for real-world experiences and situations, provide a diverse student body that includes both genders, and showcases both male and female role models.
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Academic Resource Center (ARC)
Marist offers an Academic Resource Center equipped with more than 5,000 physical books, as well as over 40,000 e-books and audiobooks, 18 computer stations, two copiers, and more.
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Fitness Center
Marist High School’s Mortimer Fitness Center was most recently renovated in 2015, expanding the space to better serve the needs of students.
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Chapel
The Brothers Chapel at Marist High School has welcomed the faithful since 1963. In its earliest days, the Brothers gathered for Mass and prayers there.
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Entrepreneurship Center
This center hosts Personal Finance, IDEA Class – $10,000 awarded to the winning IDEA team to support small business growth, and Investment Club which receives $25,000 yearly for students to invest in the stock market.
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Science Wing
Marist High School is committed to hands-on, authentic learning that helps prepare students for college and career. To that end, the school opened an incredible $15 million, 10-lab science wing with a 30-seat planetarium in August 2019.
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Murphy Art Center
In 2022, the Art Wing renovation involved both infrastructure as well as state-of-the-art equipment updates that allow for a sequential mastery of courses focused on enriching, engaging, and educating students in preparation for college art courses and beyond.
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Design and Broadcast Studios
Marist offers labs for computer coding, graphic design, photography, video editing, and architecture, which offer hands-on learning opportunities in the digital design space.
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Gymnasiums
The Marist campus has three gymnasiums and a wrestling room used for physical education class , events, and offer both game and practice facilities for 30 athletics teams.
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Marist SportsPlex
In 2022, Marist expanded its 55-acre campus to include a 75,000 sq. ft. facility located in Palos Heights. This facility is currently undergoing renovations and is being used as an athletic, training, and education center.
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Red & White Stadium
Red & White Stadium, a fully turfed, regulation field, utilized by numerous athletic teams, classes, clubs, events, and more.
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RedHawk Theater
The RedHawk Theater is a 210-seat space utilized for theatre classes, plays, musicals, as well as presentations, events, and more.