It is one of three high schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City serving students in grades nine through 12.

The hospital was established for the population of Catholic coal miners working in Park City who suffered from black lung.

As the need for a hospital dedicated to this cause subsided in direct relation to the decline of coal mining east of Salt Lake, Mary Judge (who along with her deceased husband, John, was the benefactor of the hospital) expressed her wishes to the bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake to reopen the medical facility as a school.

That fall, Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal brought in the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales to run it as an all-boys school.

[8] Pacific Islander Business and communications Government and community leadership Athletics Music, film, and fine arts Scenes from the movie Deidra & Laney Rob a Train were filmed in 2016 at Judge Memorial Catholic High School.