Regis High School

 high school, Roman Catholic school

Regis High School is a private Jesuit university-preparatory school for Roman Catholic young men located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Its main building was designed by Maginnis & Walsh. Founded 1914 at the bequest of a single, anonymous benefactor, later revealed to be Julia M. Grant, the widow of New York City mayor Hugh J. Grant. She stipulated that her gift be used to build a Jesuit high school providing a free education for Catholic boys with special consideration given to those who could not otherwise afford it. To this day, the school does not charge tuition.

Among the school's many distinguished alumni: Kevin Burke (class of 1968), president and CEO of Consolidated Edison, Bill Condon (class of 1973, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Declan Cronin (class of 2015), pitcher, for the Houston Astros, John Donvan (class of 1973) journalist for ABC News Nightline, Robert Giroux (class of 1932), publisher of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Colin Jost (class of 2000) Saturday Night Live cast member, Phil Klay (class of 2001) who was a Marine officer and 2014 National Book Award winner, John Koeltl (class of 1963), judge for U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mark Mazzetti (class of 1992) Pulitzer Prize- winning New York Times journalist, John O’Keefe (class of 1957) Nobel laureate in Medicine in 2014, Francis Edward Peters (class of 1945) scholar of Middle East religion at New York University and Gerard Reedy (class of 1957), president of College of the Holy Cross.

For more information, please call (212) 288-1100.

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