Immaculate Conception Cathedral School (Memphis, Tennessee)

Immaculate Conception Cathedral School
Immaculate Conception Cathedral School
Address
	1695 Central Avenue; Memphis, (Shelby County), Tennessee 38104; United States
Coordinates	35°7′33″N 90°0′19″W / 35.12583°N 90.00528°W
Information
Type	Private, All-Girls
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1921
Oversight	Diocese of Memphis
Superintendent	Janet Donato
Rector	Monsignor Val Handwerker
Head of school	Monsignor Val Handwerker
Grades	Pre-K - 8th grade (coed), 9th - 12th grade (all girls)
Color(s)	Blue and White
Slogan	Challenging Curriculum, Caring Community for Students of All Faiths
Nickname	"IC"
Team name	Wildcats
Accreditation	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Publication	Steps
Newspaper	Immaculata
Yearbook	The Marian
Alumni	Priscilla Presley, Margaret Scobey
High School Principal	Robin Perry
Elementary/Middle School Principal	Karen Gephart
Director of Advancement & Communications	June LaPorta
Website	http://www.myiccs.org

Immaculate Conception Cathedral School is a private, Roman Catholic school in the heart of the historic Central Gardens neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. ICCS serves students of all faiths in its Pre-K3 through 8th grade coed elementary school and its 9th through 12th all-girls high school.

Background

Founded in 1921 by the Sisters of Mercy, ICCS shares the campus of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as a unit school. The high school is the only parochial high school in the Diocese of Memphis.

ICCS's core mission is to provide academic excellence and to help develop strong moral character in a faith-based environment for students of all faiths, races and ethnicities. It prides itself on being one of the most diverse private school in the Memphis metropolitan area. The school's flagship programs include Spanish immersion classes in the early childhood and elementary schools, elementary enrichment program for advanced students, daily foreign language courses in middle school, and Accelerated Reader. High school students have the opportunity to earn college credit in Science and French through Christian Brothers University. For honors science courses, high school student attend classes alongside college students at Christian Brothers University in the new Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences.

Fundraising will begin in fall 2012 for a capital campaign to build a new Cathedral Center on Central Avenue. This new building will include a media center, Pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, theater, and meeting spaces for parish ministries.

Notable alumni

Priscilla Presley^[1]

Margaret Scobey, ICCS Class of 1967, Former United States Ambassador to Egypt and Syria.^[2]

Diane Smith, wife of FedEx founder and chairperson Fred Smith

Tina Santi Flaherty, well-known author and first female vice-president of Colgate-Palmolive, GTE, and Grey Advertising^[3]

References

^ "Girlfriend's Role Beats Wife's: Priscilla Presley". St. Petersburg Times. United Press International. 14 February 1978. Retrieved 6 June 2011. When Presley was discharged from the Army he invited Priscilla to Memphis for Christmas - and beyond. Her parents' fears were calmed when Presley promised to send Priscilla, a high school senior, to Immaculate Conception High School.
^ Sullivan, Bartholomew (January 31, 2011). "Ambassador, a former Memphian, describes events in Egypt as 'pretty unpredictable'". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
^ http://tinaflaherty.com/about.htm

External links

School Website
IC In the News [1]

Template:Tennessee college preparatory schools

[1] "Girlfriend's Role Beats Wife's: Priscilla Presley". St. Petersburg Times. United Press International. 14 February 1978. Retrieved 6 June 2011. When Presley was discharged from the Army he invited Priscilla to Memphis for Christmas - and beyond. Her parents' fears were calmed when Presley promised to send Priscilla, a high school senior, to Immaculate Conception High School.

[2] Sullivan, Bartholomew (January 31, 2011). "Ambassador, a former Memphian, describes events in Egypt as 'pretty unpredictable'". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

[3] ttp://tinaflaherty.com/about.htm

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Private girls' schools	Girls Preparatory School (Chattanooga) Harpeth Hall School (Nashville) Hutchison School (Memphis) Immaculate Conception Cathedral School (Memphis; Coed K-8, girls' high) St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School (Memphis; Coed K-8 and girls' high) St. Cecilia Academy (Nashville) St. Mary's Episcopal School (Memphis)