Saint Peter's Preparatory School ("Saint Peter's Prep" or "Prep") is a private, all-male, Jesuit, college-preparatory school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. The Society of Jesus founded the school in 1872 and today the school is operated as part of the Jesuit East Province. The school has been accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Students are enrolled from counties in Central and Northern New Jersey, as well as from nearby New York City. The school has a faculty of 83 that includes two Jesuits, 71 lay teachers, and 10 counselors, seven of whom work on college placement. Tuition for the 2022–23 school year is $21,311, while mandatory fees total $1,300. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 892 students and 80.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1. The school's student body was 53.0% (473) White, 17.9% (160) Hispanic, 12.2% (109) Black, 8.5% (76) Asian, 8.0% (71) two or more races and 0.3% (3) Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander. History Foundation and growth Saint Peter's Prep was founded in the Paulus Hook section of Jersey City as a department within Saint Peter's College (now Saint Peter's University) by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 3, 1872. Along with the Preparatory department were the Collegiate and Grammar departments. As a school for young men, Saint Peter's opened in September 1878 with seventy-one students in the Preparatory department. Academic degrees were first conferred in June 1889. At this time the only building on the campus was Shalloe Hall at 144 Grand Street. Mulry Hall, on the corner of Grand and Warren Streets, was built around the turn of the century as a local social club, before being acquired by the school. Separation from the college In 1918 Jesuit Superiors decided to close the college division in order to focus more attention on other Universities in the Northeast. It remained closed until 1930; during this time, however, the Preparatory division remained open. The college division reopened in another location in 1930 and in 1936 settled at its current location. The college and Preparatory departments were officially incorporated separately on February 10, 1955. Although Saint Peter's College has not been located at 144 Grand for over eighty years, at an entrance to the original