Placement Tests
Take the placement test. Earn merit-based scholarships.
Hoban awards merit scholarships to more than 30 students with the top scores on the placement tests.
About the placement test
The initial step for an eighth-grade student wishing to apply to Hoban is to take the High School Placement Test (HSPT). The test is one of the tools the Admission Review Committee uses to evaluate each applicant. Hoban uses the placement test both as an entrance exam and as one common data source for all incoming freshmen. Transfer students do not need to take a placement test.
Merit scholarships
The HSPT is also used to award prestigious placement test scholarships to incoming freshmen.
- Blessed Basil Moreau, Fr. Dujarie, and St. André Bessette Placement Test Scholarships: Students, who score between the 90th and 99th percentiles on the HSPT, receive renewable scholarships ranging from $4,000 to $7,500.
- St. Joseph Merit Scholarship: Students who earn a score between the 80th and 89th percentiles are awarded the renewable $2,500 St. Joseph Merit Scholarship.
Questions? Please contact Kristan Heller at hellerk@hoban.org or call 330.849.2164.
2024-25 Test Dates
- Saturday, Jan. 25
- 8:15 a.m.—Noon
- 8:15 a.m.—2 p.m. (for students using testing accommodations)
Check-in begins at 8:15 a.m., and the test begins promptly at 8:30 a.m.
This test is only open to students considering to apply to Hoban and who have not previously taken the placement test at Hoban or any other Catholic high school.
Register to take the placement test
7th-Grade Placement Test
- Saturday, May 3
- 8:15 a.m.—Noon
- 8:15 a.m. —2 p.m. (for students using testing accommodations)
Registration will open on Monday, Feb. 10.
Check-in begins at 8:15 a.m. and the test begins promptly at 8:30 a.m. Parents and families are invited to tour campus and attend an admission and financial assistance informational meeting at 9 a.m.
