St. Joseph's Academy (Missouri)

St. Joseph's Academy
St. Joseph's Academy
Address
	2307 South Lindbergh Boulevard; St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri 63131; United States
Coordinates	38°37′30.34″N 90°24′28.4″W / 38.6250944°N 90.407889°W
Information
Type	Private, All-Girls
Motto	"Not I, But We"
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1840; 184 years ago
Founder	Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
President	Regina Mooney
Principal	Jennifer Sudekum; Karen Davis
Faculty	46
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	505
Color(s)	Green and White
Athletics conference	Metro Women's Athletics Association
Mascot	Angels
Team name	Angels
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Newspaper	The Voice
Yearbook	The Echo
Tuition	$15,375
Website	www.sja1840.org

St. Joseph's Academy is a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school in Frontenac, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.^[2] It is operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The school is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

History[edit]

St. Joseph's Academy was founded as Mother Celestine's in 1840. Mother St. John Fontbonne and the Superior Sisters of St. Joseph were sent from Lyon, France to the territories of Cahokia and Carondelet. Upon their arrival, they opened a convent school.

In 1841, Mother Celestine's moved from the log cabin that it had been founded in to a motherhouse in Carondelet, Missouri. In 1925, the academy moved into Clayton, Missouri along with Fontbonne University. In 1946, the campus became too small for both the high school and the college, so the academy abandoned the city and moved to Frontenac, Missouri. In 1955, the new building opened.