Every student deserves to be known, challenged, and championed.
Trinity offers a rigorous college-preparatory education and a rich student life rooted in Catholic tradition — in a community where your child will never be just a face in the crowd.
From their first week, your child will belong to one of Trinity’s Houses.
We’re the only high school in Central Pennsylvania to offer the House System — a unique European model that surrounds every student with mentors, friends across grade levels, and real opportunities to lead.
Since 1963, Trinity has educated students holistically — mind, body, and spirit — nurturing and challenging every young person to become exceptional women and men.
Choosing a high school is one of the biggest decisions your family will make. For more than sixty years, Trinity has walked alongside families asking the same questions you’re asking now.
Invest today in your child’s tomorrow. Trinity graduates leave prepared — 98% continue on to college and post-secondary programs, and a recent graduating class earned $18.3 million in merit-based scholarship offers. Trinity students go on to schools like Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, MIT, the U.S. Military and Naval Academies, Notre Dame, and UCLA.
And as Central Pennsylvania’s only College Board AP Silver School, the preparation starts long before the acceptance letters arrive.
Where will Trinity take your child?
Our alumni have founded tech companies, led the CIA, sold out 20,000-seat venues, served around the world, and championed justice in their communities.
From here, you can go anywhere.
Your child won’t spend four years searching for their place — their House gives them one from day one.
The House System fundamentally changed Trinity’s culture: students lead mentor groups, plan events, and take ownership of their high school experience. Smaller communities, friendly competition, and friendships across grade levels create an atmosphere that includes every student and brings out their best.
Ask anyone — students, alumni, parents, teachers — and they’ll describe Trinity the same way: family. Here, your child will know every one of their classmates, and every one of them will know your child. We learn together, root for each other, and pray for one another by name.
Once a Shamrock, always a Shamrock!
Before your child ever applies to college, Trinity’s agreements with more than 30 colleges and universities can guarantee qualified students acceptance and merit-based scholarships — including direct pathways into programs like Doctor of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Engineering, and Physician Assistant.
The investment in a Trinity education is an investment in your student’s future.
Your child doesn’t have to choose between competing at a high level and being a whole person. At Trinity, they’ll do both. Trinity offers the most competitive athletics in the area, capped by winning the PennLive Cup as the region’s best all-around sports program.
The proof runs across the board. In 2023–24 alone, seven Trinity teams earned District gold or silver medals, with gold going to Girls Volleyball, Girls Soccer, Boys Lacrosse, and Softball, and silver to Football, Boys Basketball, and Baseball. Individual Shamrocks added District gold of their own, turning in stellar performances in Boys Swimming, Wrestling, and Boys and Girls Track and Field.
And whichever sport your child loves, there’s a place for them to grow here. Across 24 varsity programs, Trinity has opportunities for all students to compete, and our teams rely on students who are also musicians, artists, scholars, and more. Your child won’t have to shrink into a single role to belong. At Trinity, they get to be all of it.
Trinity has a full-time strength and conditioning coach on staff to work with each of our teams on developing safe and effective weight room habits. This work helps our student-athletes perform better on the court and field, while also helping them to prevent injuries in training and competition.
An extension of the House System, the Trinity Leadership Institute builds on our students’ abilities, convictions, and values to grow leaders who are confident, ethical, and capable. The House System gives extensive leadership opportunities to our students. The Trinity Leadership Institute trains those students on all aspects of leadership by bringing in community leaders each month.
Community service is at the heart of the Trinity experience, with every graduate contributing at least 80 hours of service over the course of four years. Our House System also fosters service to others, with students serving as “service coordinators” and specific charities chosen by each House annually.
As a school community, we regularly collect items to support groups and organizations in need, including: food for New Hope Ministries, diapers for the Healthy Steps Diaper Bank, hygiene items for veterans, and clothing and winter items for the homeless. Trinity students are constantly in motion helping others.
In the fall of 2024, Trinity’s Seton House helped to staff Saint Francis Soup Kitchen for eight consecutive Tuesdays. They brought with them needed items for donation and they fed their brothers and sisters when they arrived.
We are called to serve one another, and students at Trinity see and hear that message daily and live that message after they leave our school.
How many teenagers do you know who cite a four-day religious retreat as the highlight of their high school experience? At Trinity, most graduates since 1998 have called their Kairos retreat just that. Because of the program’s deep impact, we recently expanded the retreat so juniors attend a three-day Kairos retreat locally, and seniors can build on that experience at their overnight Fourth Day retreat. Nearly every student attends these optional retreats and returns with a deeper love of God, a greater appreciation for the experiences and feelings of their peers, and a more profound understanding of themselves. Graduates from decades ago still quote the way they felt on retreat and the lessons they learned as teenagers as among their most memorable and formative experiences.
Trinity’s Great Books Program is modeled after programs at the college level and has seen students reading some of the most complex texts in literature one-on-one with faculty mentors. Our program uses well-crafted, multicultural selections that connect to our established curriculum while offering enrichment opportunities. Our students gain insight into other cultures through the diverse voices of authors from across the world.
Trinity students spend one half day at the beginning of the school year taking the PSAT, while their public-school counterparts spend significant classroom time all year preparing for the Keystone Exams. Keystone Exams are not considered by college admissions, but nevertheless consume classroom time, student attention, and teacher resources. In contrast, Trinity allows teachers freedom to cater to the needs and interests of their classes, and this keeps students focused on their own education. And in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, Trinity outscored every public and private school in the area.
