Cretin-Derham Hall High School (Amerigo Education)

Since merged with Cretin High School and Derham Hall High School in 1987, Cretin-Derham Hall is a Catholic co-educational high school, committed to academic excellence in grades nine through twelve. The school educates young men and women of diverse abilities, cultures, and backgrounds and provides them with opportunities to excel at the university level and beyond.

Cretin-Derham Hall offers an academically rigorous curriculum that includes 44 Honors and AP courses, with 170 classes offered across a range of levels to ensure the success of students while remaining academically stimulating. Through a diverse array of classes to take and extracurriculars to get involved with, a student can craft their own high school experience through their involvement both inside and outside of the classroom. The school’s unique Leadership Academy offers courses to students that would like to learn more about how they can be leaders in their communities and create real change. Cretin-Derham students get a head start on taking collegiate level courses through the school’s Program for Advanced College Credit, allowing advanced students to continue challenging themselves while attaining credits that are often recognized at the college or university level. The languages offered at Cretin-Derham Hall High School are French, Latin, Mandarin, and Spanish.

Why Cretin-Derham Hall High School

• Location and facilities: Located on a safe, urban, 22-acre campus in the heart of the Twin Cities, the Cretin-Derham Hall campus offers students everything they need to grow as students and become successful. Cretin-Derham Hall facilities include a modern Literacy Center, Collaborative Learning Center, and Exploration Center. These facilities are designed to accommodate different learning styles across the student body. Engineering and science labs are equipped with advanced technology, exposing students to digital microscopes and 3D printers. A newly renovated field house and weight room are utilized by pro-athlete alumni to train in the off-season. Encouraging involvement in the arts, Cretin-Derham Hall has art studios for ceramics, painting, and drawing with updated equipment and clean spaces for students to work in. An award-winning fine arts department resides in the 450-seat auditorium where recognized productions are performed. 
• Residence: At Amerigo Twin cities, come together with students from around the world in a safe, enriched community that takes advantage of countless opportunities for immersion in American culture. Anchored in a safe, secure residential neighborhood located just minutes from the Cretin-Derham Hall campus, students live at the Amerigo Twin Cities Residential Campus and have access to all of the amenities of home with 24/7 on-site support from Residential life personnel. 
• Student life: Life at Cretin-Herham Hall is structured around opportunities for students to deepen their learning, engage their passions, and develop life-long friendships with their peers. Students are emboldened by a wide variety of choices in extracurricular and co-curricular activities including 74% participation across 18 sports, involvement in the award-winning Fine Arts program, in addition to more than 29 extracurricular clubs including Cooking Club, Friendship Club, Mandarin Club, Newspaper, and Science Olympiad.