Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans)

at , New Orleans , 70115 United States

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Academy of the Sacred Heart is an all-girls private, Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school was founded in 1886. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and is part of the network of Sacred Heart Schools. Within the Sacred Heart Network family, it is often referred to as "The Rosary." The school's student body ranges from toddler to 12th grade.Sacred Heart is a member of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest and athletically, it competes in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association.HistoryAcademy of the Sacred Heart was established in 1886 by the Society of the Sacred Heart.St. Philippine Duchesne, a missionary to the New World, arrived in New Orleans in 1818, exactly one hundred years after Bienville founded the city. After fifty years of pursuing missionary work in unsettled areas along the river, the nuns returned to establish a convent in the Vieux Carre.In the late 19th century, the French Quarter was in decline. Most importantly, the established French, Catholic families from the Quarter and Esplanade Ridge, whose daughters were the mainstay of the student body, were moving across town into what was the American sector. In addition, second generation English and Irish families, who were already uptown, were seeking for their daughters a school that provided the same type of education that the religious had been providing downtown. It was therefore no surprise that the religious sought refuge from their deteriorating urban environment and turned their attention upriver. Demographically, the nuns and the city were moving in the same direction.

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Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans) is New Orleans based place and this enity listed in School category. 70115.