Incarnate Word Academy (Houston)
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| Incarnate Word Academy | |
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609 Crawford Street , , 77002 United States | |
| Coordinates | 29°45′23″N 95°21′26″W / 29.75639°N 95.35722°W |
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| Type | Private, All-Girls |
| Motto | Praised be the Incarnate Word |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Established | 1873 |
| Founder | Mother Mary Gabriel Dillon |
| Status | Open |
| Locale | St. Thomas' Episcopal School |
| School code | 443330 |
| President | Sister Lauren Beck, C.V.I. |
| Principal | Mary Aamodt |
| Faculty | 39 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | All girls |
| Age range | 14-18 |
| Enrollment | 348 |
| Average class size | 16 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9:1 |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | Red and white |
| Athletics conference | TAPPS 5A |
| Mascot | Falcons |
| Team name | Falcons |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools[1] |
| USNWR ranking | 827 |
| Publication | The Word Magazine |
| Yearbook | The Margil |
| Tuition | $15,650 |
| Website | www |
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Incarnate Word Academy is an all-girls Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
Incarnate Word Academy serves grades 9 through 12 and is owned and operated by the Congregation of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. IWA opened a new $15 million, 18,500 square feet (1,720 m2) academic building in the Spring of 2017 to provide additional space for classes, collaboration, student life, and fine arts.
Student body
The student body represents fifty-one Catholic parishes and 101 zip codes across the Houston metropolitan area and is a community of 348 young women. As of the 2017–2018 school year, school's racial percentages are as follows:[2]
- Hispanic: 24%
- White American: 48%
- African-American: 9%
- Multi-racial: 11%
- Asian/Pacific Islander: 8%
See also
References
- ^ SACS-CASI. "SACS-Council on Accreditation and School Improvement". Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
- ^ "incarnateword.org Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, School Profile]
