Academy of Holy Angels
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| type of school | High school |
| founding | 1877/1931 |
| place | Richfield , Minnesota |
| State | Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 52 '57 " N , 93 ° 16' 47" W |
| student | 820 |
| Teachers | 60 |
| management | Heidi Foley, Jill M. Reilly |
| Website | academyofholyangels.org |
The Academy of Holy Angels (AHA) is a Catholic high school in Richfield , Minnesota . The college preparatory private school with grades 9–12 was founded in 1877 by a Catholic women's order, the Sisters of Saint Joseph , and currently teaches around 820 students. The school is located in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis .
description
The school is attended by 820 students who are taught by 60 teachers. The average class size is 20 students. Parents have to pay school fees . This is $ 11,400 for the 2010-11 school year. Around 30 percent of the students receive financial aid.
The admission criteria include previous school performance and work and social behavior. School life is based on the values of the founders and offers a broad curriculum. In addition, there are 24 sports and art options and around 40 other extracurricular activities. Around 90 percent of students take part in at least one such offer. In 1998 the Academy of Holy Angels was recognized by the US Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence .
The school is open to students regardless of religion or race. Participation in religious offers is compulsory.
history
On October 2, 1877, the school was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet under the direction of Sister Agnes Veronica Williams in Minneapolis as a girls' school. In the following years the school moved several times to other buildings and also integrated a boarding school . As the number of students continued to rise and St. Margaret's Academy opened, the two schools merged in 1907 and the Academy of Holy Angels became a primary school. In 1928 the school was shot down because the existing premises no longer allowed the school and boarding school to operate.
On September 15, 1931, the school reopened in a newly constructed building in Richfield as a combined day school and boarding school. The number of students was 107 students in grades 1–12. The numbers rose quickly; at the end of the school year there were already 182 students. In 1932 the school was accredited and the first 13 students graduated. When a primary school of St. Peter's Church opened in the immediate vicinity in 1949 , the Academy of Holy Angels closed its own grades. In 1953 the boarding school closed. In September 1982 the Academy of Holy Angels became co-educational and the first 128 students were taught in grades 9–12. In 1989 a middle school was opened, but it was closed again in 1998.
Sports
The Academy of Holy Angels sports teams compete in the Missota Conference in the Minnesota State High School League . In 1975 the girls' basketball team won the first championship. Only since the 1990s has the school been able to achieve greater success. In 2002, the boys' ice hockey team won the State Championship ; in 2005, both the girls' and boys' teams won. Neither school in the state had previously won both titles in the same year.
Famous students
- Kelly Carlson , actress
- Larry Fitzgerald , American football player
- Jack Hillen , ice hockey player
- Erik Johnson , ice hockey player
- TR Knight , actor
( italics : no graduate)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Private Secondary Schools 2007-2008 . Peterson's, 2007, ISBN 0-7689-2399-9 , pp. 64 .
Web links
- The school website (English)