St. Joseph's Academy (Missouri)

St. Joseph's Academy
St. Joseph's Academy
Address
	2307 South Lindbergh Boulevard; St. Louis, 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
Founder	Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
President	Dr. Regina Mooney
Principal	Mrs. Jennifer Sudekum
Faculty	46
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	505
Color(s)	Green and White
Mascot	Angels
Team name	Angels
Accreditation	North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Newspaper	The Voice
Yearbook	The Echo
Tuition	$14,710
Athletic Director	Maureen McVey
Website	[1]

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 located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The school is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

History

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. Following this, they founded the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf in 1937. 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 decided to move to Frontenac, Missouri, its current location. In 1955, the new school opened.