St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati) - Campus

Campus

In addition to hundreds of classrooms and the sports venues described below, the school grounds has room for a wooded walking trail, a mock courtroom, and a school history exhibit located within its 110 acres (0.4 km2). The Fred Middendorf, S.J., Nature Trail runs about a third of a mile behind the athletic fields. Indoors, the Mock Trial team makes use of a specially built classroom that imitates the layout of a courtroom. Along the school's main hallways, recent student artwork hangs beside the Living Walls project, a graphical timeline accompanying 90 years of class photos.

St. Xavier maintains 11 computer labs with over 330 computers equipped with Microsoft Windows and Zip drives. By 2001, St. Xavier had become one of the first Catholic schools in Cincinnati to use SMART Boards in classrooms, Edline for parent-student-teacher communication, and Gaggle.net for student-to-student e-mail. In 2005, the school employed SMART Board or SMART Cart systems in 25 classrooms. In 2010, Gaggle service was replaced by Microsoft Live@edu accounts for students and faculty members. The school's library, named for alumnus and Ohio state representative John D. "Jay" Carroll III, contains 23,000 volumes.

The school's Finneytown campus features athletic facilities comparable to most colleges, highlighted by a new football stadium and a modernized Charles H. Keating Sr. Natatorium. The natatorium, which St. Xavier shares with the Cincinnati Marlins, houses an Olympic-size swimming pool and seats 626. It hosted the Amateur Athletic Union national swimming championships in 1970 and 1976. The football stadium, named after the school, was built during the 2003–04 school year around Ballaban Field. St. Xavier's soccer field was home to the now-defunct Cincinnati Cheetahs professional soccer team during their 1994 season.

St. Xavier's campus features a number of prominent pieces of artwork. At the entrance stands a statue of the school's namesake that once stood atop the entry to the old school building downtown. There is also a smaller statue of St. Xavier in the main stairwell. The sculpture Open End, a 1983 work by Australian sculptor Clement Meadmore, stood outside the Cincinnati Commerce Center at Sixth and Vine Streets downtown until Prudential Insurance Company donated it to St. Xavier in 1999. The 11-foot-high (3.4 m), 5-short-ton (4.5 t) curved metal beam is now located at the Math Wing entrance outside Berning Gymnasium. Inside, the Fine Art Gallery includes a landscape painting by Lewis Henry Meakin.

As of 2009, St. Xavier contracts with Aramark for food services. In addition to servicing the school cafeteria, which has been renamed the "U.B.U. Lounge", Aramark operates the Snack Xpress shop, Bomber Deli, and cafeteria annex. Previously, the school contracted with local company GTC Foodservice for 16 years. The Bait Shop concession stand in Keating Natatorium is operated separately by the Cincinnati Marlins.