Gordon Tech High School

Gordon Technical High School opened in 1952 as an all-male school. The school was founded at the request of Cardinal Samuel Stritch, who envisioned a new type of Catholic high school, one that had both a college preparatory curriculum and a technical curriculum. The school formally shortened its name to Gordon Tech in 1999. In 2001, the new school motto was adopted, replacing the old motto Ad Viros Faciendos (For the Making of Men). The school was all-male until regional gentrification during the 1990s prompted the school to begin admitting girls in August 2002. In 2012, a group of trustees and administrators of DePaul University was asked by the Archdiocese of Chicago and the priests and brothers of the Congregation of the Resurrection to assist Gordon Tech College Prep. As the academic partnership with DePaul University progressed successfully, the school officially became DePaul College Prep in 2014. Cover Photo Taken by: Eric Allix Rogers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/reallyboring/3463025371)