Incarnate Word Academy (Houston)

The Incarnate Word Academy is a supported by the Roman Catholic Church girls' school in Houston (Texas ). It is the first permanent Catholic school in the city. Assuming it is the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston.

History

At the request of the Bishop of Texas John M. Odin came 1852, the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and the Sacred Sacrament, founded in Lyon in 1625 a medal to the United States in order to carry out tasks in religious education. The sisters taught her first school in 1853 in Brownsville and a second in 1866 in Victoria one.

A third school was established in 1873 in Houston. The matron M. Gabriel Dillon and two sisters of the Congregation came at the request of the local parish priest Joseph Querat in the city and began to teach girls in temporary premises in the old Franciscan monastery at the Franklin Street. On January 3, 1874 own school building was constructed at its present location at the Crawford Street. 1878 the school received from the State of Texas authorized to issue its own degrees.

The three-storey building encloses a courtyard. Accommodation for boarders emerged a short time later. 1899 an auditorium was built in 1905 and required the constant growth of the school also a three-storey extension building. 1948 replaced a new building, the original parts of the building.

Currently teaches at the school 250 students.