Sacred Heart Stables, center for the SSH equestrian studies division, features a fourteen stall barn in addition to the unique six stall barn that was built in 1886. The Academy is home to over thirty school-owned and privately owned horses. The Academy has an equestrian program with a barn available for students wishing to bring their own horses. The Academy also hosts many international students (including Foreign Exchange students) in its boarding facilities and has an English as a Second Language Program. Upper School (grades 8 through 12) students participate in a wide variety of extracurricular activities including athletics, student community governance, performance art, clubs and community service. The Lower School is divided into Primary (grades Pre-K3 through 4th) and Prep (grades 5th through 7th). Lower School students (grades Pre-K3 through 7th) study art studio, music, guidance, and art appreciation in addition to the more traditional subjects. The Academy offers a strong, diversified curriculum. personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.the building of community as a Christian value.a social awareness which impels to action.The Academy is also a member of the National Catholic Education Association.Īs a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, the Academy commits itself to educate to the following 5 goals: Madeline Sophie and are guided by the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart Education. All of the network schools are rooted in the philosophy and vision of St.

The network consists of twenty-one educational institutions in the United States and over two hundred schools internationally. The Academy of the Sacred Heart is member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. The membership of ISAS consists of 81 schools located in Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas enrolling over 44,000 students. The Association was founded in 1955 and incorporated not-for-profit in 1970. ISAS is a voluntary membership association of private schools. The Academy is accredited by the Louisiana State Department of Education Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and AdvencED. It is the only shrine at the exact location of a confirmed miracle in the United States. This miracle eventually led to the canonization of John Berchmans. John Berchmans appeared to a novice, Mary Wilson and cured her of a fatal illness. Union General Nathaniel Banks had a daughter in a school in New York run by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, and he was asked to look after the Grand Coteau sisters and their students. Although thousands of Federal troops were encamped in the fields surrounding the Academy during the Civil War, the school was not touched. It is also the oldest independent school in the Acadiana region.įounded under the direction of Saint Philippine Duchesne, the Academy has remained in continuous operation through fire, epidemics, and war. It is the oldest, continually running member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools in the world. The Academy was established in 1821 and is the second oldest institution of learning west of the Mississippi. Its brother school is Berchmans Academy for boys, founded in 2006.

It is operated independently within the Diocese of Lafayette. The Academy of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1821, is the girls' school, with residential accommodations for students in grades 9 through 12. Schools of the Sacred Heart is a complex of two Catholic single-sex private schools for grades Pre-Kindergarten-3 through grade 12 in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) Girls (Academy of the Sacred Heart) and Boys (Berchmans)

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