Three or Four Classes?---IHSA Officials comment please

[JRutledge]

There is already a provision for schools that are single gender schools to be considered in a higher class. For example St. Joseph High School where Isiah Thomas attended and was featured in the movie Hoop Dreams. That school was an all-boy's school with around 400 students. They were always considered a Class AA school (big schools) and they played won a State Title in 1999. So there were already policies in place to deal with private schools like you suggested. The problem is you have schools like Driscoll Catholic and Montini Catholic that are not gender specific but have only about 400 to 500 studentsÂ’ total. According to the current system these schools are Class A schools by pure enrollment. Then this year IHSA came up with a private school multiplier that brought a lawsuit with many Cook County private schools to hold off the new policy. The discussion of more classes has come out of this debate that has been going on for 20+ years.

Peace