Lacordaire Academy

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Lacordaire Academy
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Front Building of the Lacordaire Academy
Address
Lacordaire Academy
155 Lorraine Avenue

Montclair
,
(Essex County)
,
New Jersey
07043

United States
Coordinates 40°50′30″N74°12′5″W / 40.84167°N 74.20139°W / 40.84167; -74.20139
Information
Type Private, Co-ed
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic,
Sisters of St. Dominic
Established1920
NCES School ID00863533 [1]
Head of schoolMegan Mannato [2]
Faculty32.3 FTEs [1]
Grades PreK-12
Enrollment265 (plus 15 in PreK, as of 2021–22) [1]
Student to teacher ratio8.2:1 [1]
Color(s)  Black and
  Red [3]
Team nameLions [3] Mascot Rory The Lion
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools [4]
PublicationZephyr (literary magazine) [5]
NewspaperLaco Nation
YearbookVeritas
Tuition$18,900 (grades 9-12 for 2024-25) [6]
Website www.lacordaire.net

Lacordaire Academy is a Catholic college preparatory school with a coeducational prekindergarten to eighth grade and an all girls ninth through twelfth grade student body. The Academy was established by the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, New Jersey. The school is located in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Lacordaire Academy has been accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1951 and is accredited through January 2025. [4] The school is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools [7] and is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. [8]

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 265 students (plus 15 in PreK) and 32.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.2:1. The school's student body was 35.1% (93) White, 23.4% (62) Black, 15.8% (42) two or more races, 13.6% (32) Hispanic and 12.1% (32) Asian. [1]

The school was founded in 1920, and named for Pere Henri Lacordaire, a Dominican priest who lived in post-revolution Paris. [9]

Activities

Lacordaire Academy provides many clubs and organizations that students can join based on their own interests and availability. At Lacordaire, a student can create any club that she desires as long as they find a moderator and people to join.

Leadership

Athletics

The Lacordaire Lions compete in interscholastic sports under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association [3] competing on an independent basis. [10]

Sports offered include: [3]

A runner from the school was the Non-Public B individual champion in 2002. [11]

Literary

Clubs

Graduation requirements

All Upper School students follow a college preparatory program. All requirements must be fulfilled or substituted with a course of equal value.
Required:

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Lacordaire Academy, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2023.
  2. ↑ Welcome from the Head of School, Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Lacordaire Academy, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Lacordaire Academy, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 26, 2022.
  5. ↑ Zephyr, Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 1942. "Zephyr is our annually-printed, student-published literary and art magazine."
  6. ↑ Tuition and Financial Aid, Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024.
  7. ↑ List of Member Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed May 10, 2017.
  8. ↑ Essex County Catholic High Schools Archived July 28, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed May 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Mission and History, Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024. "The Dominican sisters decided to call it Lacordaire School, named after père Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, who is credited for re-establishing the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is thought to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century. On September 15, 1920, with Sister Concepta as the principal, Sister Aloysius as the high school teacher, and Sister Andrea as the grade school teacher, Lacordaire School welcomed its first two students."
  10. ↑ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  11. ↑ NJSIAA Girls Cross Country State Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Sister Elizabeth", Democrat and Chronicle , January 18, 1972. Accessed October 25, 2017. "She attended a small girl's high school, Lacordaire in Montclair. The school, across the street from the McAlister home had a senior class of 13 when Maureen graduated.... In June of 1961, Maureen became Sister Elizabeth McAlister, then devoted her full energies to completing the last two years of study at Marymount."
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