Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart

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Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart exists for girls—shy or boisterous, precocious, or cautious—who are poised on the thresholds of the rest of their lives. Today, we offer Houston girls what Sacred Heart foundress Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat offered the girls of France more than 200 years ago—a stimulating, enveloping, and elevating education from which girls emerge uniquely as formed and confident young women.

In our intimately scaled classrooms—an 8:1 student-to-teacher ratio—your daughter expands her intellect, faith, conscience, and sense of self as part of our dynamic sisterhood. And she grows in knowledge, confidence, and ability as she learns, laughs and plays, sings, and prays with her friends.

Our curriculum, culture, and worldview connect with and promote the Goals and Criteria of the international Sacred Heart Network. Our single-sex education ensures that our classes and community offer the support, challenges, and freedom that allow girls to shine.

As a college-prep school, we send our graduates to top colleges across the country. We also match them to colleges where they will continue contributing to their campus and the local community, developing their strengths, and thriving academically and socially. These are your daughter's formative years. At Duchesne, she joins a diverse and vibrant sisterhood of girls' information.

The mission of Duchesne Academy is to inspire and prepare young women to engage in a lifelong pursuit of their faith in God, intellectual vitality, social awareness, and action, the building of community and personal growth, in the living tradition of Sacred Heart education. The Society of the Sacred Heart has been educating girls and young women for more than 200 years since Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the order in 1800 "for the sake of one child." At Duchesne, we draw upon the full force and range of our Sacred Heart heritage to help our girls form-wise hearts and sharp minds.

As your daughter's learning universe fills with possibility, Duchesne surrounds her with an enlivening and intellectually serious community that propels her to develop her unmistakable voice and discerning mind. In our intimately scaled, all-girls classrooms, your daughter revels in an atmosphere of mutual discovery, discussion, and respectful debate. Her teachers and classmates know her heart and her mind. They provoke new perspectives on a classic text, new approaches to a math problem, and newfound joy in learning for its own sake.

As she progresses through Duchesne, simple arithmetic grows into complex calculus. Reading and writing approach—even surpass—what is expected at many colleges. Research skills evolve with her age and capabilities. And her understanding of her ability to change and shape her future gains profound clarity.

One of Duchesne's missions is to empower young women with technological fluency. Our curriculum offers and supports a fully integrated, advanced technology program of interactive classrooms and innovative teachers. Duchesne emphasizes mastery of analytical skills, computer concepts, and effectively using technology applications to communicate and solve various problems.

Duchesne families often remark on the feeling of warmth and camaraderie they are greeted with every time they step on campus, a feeling that the school is a second home. We are undoubtedly inclusive and caring. We are also quite challenging in that a loving family expects the best from each child because they know how much potential resides within her. Within our enveloping Sacred Heart community, your daughter's formation means:

• Exploring her expansive relationship with God and forming a personal faith that guides her actions and helps her interpret the world.
• Immersing herself in original and challenging intellectual work and coming to know the joy and satisfaction that accompanies learning pursued its own sake.
• Developing an informed social conscience that impels her to put her knowledge and beliefs into meaningful action beyond the campus.
• Contributing her gifts and perspective to our dynamic community where she connects with classmates and teachers to construct a positive campus culture.
• Exercising the privilege of wise freedom, she earns and tests as she makes increasingly responsible and mature choices.

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