Academy of Holy Angels

The Academy of Holy Angels ( AHA) is a Catholic High School in Richfield, Minnesota. The college preparatory private school with grades 9-12 founded in 1877 by a Catholic women religious of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and currently teaches around 820 pupils. The school is located in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Description

The Academy of Holy Angels is of 820 students attended, taught by 60 teachers. The average class size is 20 students. As a private school, the Academy of Holy Angels mainly funded by the school fees. This is for the school year 2010/11 at 11,400 U.S. dollars. About 30 percent of students receive financial aid.

The eligibility criteria include previous academic performance and the labor and social behavior. School life is based on the values ​​of the founders and offers a broad curriculum. Moreover, an additional 24 sports and arts offerings and about 40 other extracurricular activities are offered. About 90 percent of students participate in at least one such offer. 1998 was honored as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, the Academy of Holy Angels from the U.S. Department of Education.

The school is open to students regardless of religion and race. Attendance at religious services is mandatory.

History

On 2 October 1877, the Academy of Holy Angels of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet was founded under the direction of Sister Agnes Veronica Williams in Minneapolis as a girls' school. In the following years, the school moved several times around in other buildings and built a boarding school. As student numbers continued to rise and the St. Margaret's Academy was opened in 1907 joined together both schools and the Academy of Holy Angels was in elementary school. 1928 shot the school, as the existing space did not permit school and boarding school more.

On 15 September 1931, the Academy of Holy Angels was reopened in a newly built building in Richfield as a combined day and boarding school. The number of students was 107 students in grades 1-12. Quick rose to the numbers at the end of the school year, there were already 182 students. 1932, the school was accredited and the first 13 students received their degree. As in 1949 in the immediate vicinity of an elementary school at St. Peter 's Church was opened, the Academy of Holy Angels closed the corresponding own grades. In 1953, the boarding school. In September 1982, the Academy of Holy Angels was co-educational, in grades 9-12, the first 128 students were taught. 1989 Middle School was opened, but this was in 1998 closed again.

Sports

The sports teams of the Academy of Holy Angels compete in the Missota Conference in the Minnesota State High School League. 1975 won the girls basketball team 's first championship. Only since the 1990s, the school was able to achieve increased success. In 2002, the boys team won the State Championship in ice hockey, in 2005 managed this, both the girls and the boys team. To win both titles in the same year succeeded before any school in the state.

Famous students

( Italic: not graduate )

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