Immaculate Conception Cathedral High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
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Immaculate Conception Cathedral School is a private
, all-girls Roman Catholic school in Memphis, Tennessee
. It consists of an elementary school (grades 1-5), middle school (grades 6-8) and a high school (grades 9-12). The elementary and middle schools are for both boys and girls.
. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of Mercy. IC 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.
As a smaller school, IC is able to provide individualized attention to its students. Some of the ways the school does this is through Spanish immersion programs in pre-K and Kindergarten, enrichment programs in the elementary school, middle and high school choir, daily foreign language courses in middle school, and Accelerated Reader. High school students can earn college credit in Science and French through Christian Brothers University
. For science courses, students are able to attend classes at CBU and utilize the new Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences.
The school has made many upgrades to its campus in recent years. These include adding air-conditioning to the gym, a remodeled elementary school library, renovations to McAuley Hall in the high school, and new doors and entryways to campus buildings. The school has also hired a full-time development director to support the long-term financial viability of the school. Future plans, as announced in the parish bulletin in January 2011, include a Cathedral Center. This new building will include a new library, pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, and meeting spaces for parish ministries. Fundraising for this building will hopefully begin sometime in 2012.
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
, all-girls Roman Catholic school in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
. It consists of an elementary school (grades 1-5), middle school (grades 6-8) and a high school (grades 9-12). The elementary and middle schools are for both boys and girls.
Background
Immaculate Conception Cathedral School is located next to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of MemphisRoman Catholic Diocese of Memphis
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis is a Roman Catholic diocese in Tennessee. It was founded on June 20, 1970, when Pope Paul VI removed the counties in the state west of the Tennessee River from the Diocese of Nashville, which, prior to that time, encompassed the entire state.The diocese is...
. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of Mercy. IC 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.
As a smaller school, IC is able to provide individualized attention to its students. Some of the ways the school does this is through Spanish immersion programs in pre-K and Kindergarten, enrichment programs in the elementary school, middle and high school choir, daily foreign language courses in middle school, and Accelerated Reader. High school students can earn college credit in Science and French through Christian Brothers University
Christian Brothers University
Christian Brothers University is the oldest collegiate degree-granting institution in the city of Memphis. The university is run by the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, the patron saint of teachers...
. For science courses, students are able to attend classes at CBU and utilize the new Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences.
The school has made many upgrades to its campus in recent years. These include adding air-conditioning to the gym, a remodeled elementary school library, renovations to McAuley Hall in the high school, and new doors and entryways to campus buildings. The school has also hired a full-time development director to support the long-term financial viability of the school. Future plans, as announced in the parish bulletin in January 2011, include a Cathedral Center. This new building will include a new library, pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, and meeting spaces for parish ministries. Fundraising for this building will hopefully begin sometime in 2012.