
Become who you want to be at Good Counsel. We offer the broadest academic and extracurricular opportunities in the region, led by a highly-skilled and invested faculty. Good Counsel is more than just a high school. For families looking for the best-fit high school for their child, we are a Catholic, co-educational community that inspires each student to excel, serve, and love in his or her unique way.
Become a member of our community where we promote an inclusive environment that embodies the Xaverian values of simplicity, humility, compassion, zeal, and trust. Our Lady of Good Counsel High School was founded by Xaverian Brothers as a college-preparatory school for boys in 1958. Thirty years later, we opened our doors to young women.
Become a member of our community where we promote an inclusive environment that embodies the Xaverian values of simplicity, humility, compassion, zeal, and trust. Our Lady of Good Counsel High School was founded by Xaverian Brothers as a college-preparatory school for boys in 1958. Thirty years later, we opened our doors to young women.
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About Us
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Welcome to Our Lady of Good Counsel High School where our mission is to inspire our students to excel, serve, and love. Since our founding in 1958, the educational vision of the Xaverian Brothers has been the source of that inspiration. The Brothers' core spiritual values of simplicity, humility, compassion, zeal, and trust form the distinctive basis of our Catholic school education.
History
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Serving the greater Washington metropolitan area for more than 60 years, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School was founded in 1958 by the Xaverian Brothers as a Catholic high school for boys. The Xaverian Brothers, a consecrated lay Catholic order founded by Theodore James Ryken, did so at the invitation of Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle.
Mission and Vision
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Our Mission: At Our Lady of Good Counsel, a Catholic high school sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers, we inspire our students to excel, serve, and love. A Good Counsel education provides young men and women the opportunity to reach beyond the merely "good" and to succeed beyond their perceived limits.
Alumni
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As alumnus of Good Counsel, you are part of a global network of over 13,000 leaders, creators, and change makers bound together by our shared connection. Regardless of where you live, all graduates have the opportunity to continue being active members of the GC Community. We hope you will be a prideful Forever-A-Falcon member, and we invite you to explore all that we offer our largest community.
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Private bus service: Good Counsel offers bus service to locations in Howard, Prince George's, Frederick, and Montgomery Counties, including stops in Clarksville, Upper Marlboro, Urbana, and Silver Spring. Our buses are provided by Coughlin Transportation, a reliable, privately owned business with whom we have built a solid relationship over 30 years.
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