Lacordaire Academy

{{short description|Private school in Essex County, New Jersey, United States}}

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| caption = Front Building of the Lacordaire Academy

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| streetaddress = 155 Lorraine Avenue

| city = Montclair

| county = (Essex County)

| state = New Jersey

| zipcode = 07043

| country = United States

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| type = Private, Co-ed

| religion = Roman Catholic,
Sisters of St. Dominic

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| established = 1920

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| grades = PreK-12

| enrollment = 265 (plus 15 in PreK, as of 2021–22)

| faculty = 32.3 FTEs

| ratio = 8.2:1

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| publication = Zephyr (literary magazine)[https://lacordaireacademy.com/category/zephyr/ Zephyr], Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 1942. "Zephyr is our annually-printed, student-published literary and art magazine."

| newspaper = Laco Nation

| yearbook = Veritas

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| head of school = Megan Mannato[https://lacordaireacademy.com/welcome-from-the-head-of-school/ Welcome from the Head of School], Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024.

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| tuition = $18,900 (grades 9-12 for 2024-25)[https://lacordaireacademy.com/tuition-and-financial-aid/ Tuition and Financial Aid], Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024.

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Lacordaire Academy is a Catholic college preparatory school with a coeducational prekindergarten to eighth grade and an all girls ninth through twelfth grade student body. The Academy was established by the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, New Jersey. The school is located in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Lacordaire Academy has been accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1951 and is accredited through January 2025.[https://www.msa-cess.org/school-profile/?oId=0065e00000B8S57&typ=school-profile Lacordaire Academy], Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 26, 2022. The school is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools[http://www.njais.org/page.cfm?p=365 List of Member Schools], New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed May 10, 2017. and is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.[https://catholicschoolsnj.org/high-school/essex-county-catholic-high-schools/ Essex County Catholic High Schools] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728163433/https://catholicschoolsnj.org/high-school/essex-county-catholic-high-schools/ |date=July 28, 2017 }}, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed May 10, 2017.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 265 students (plus 15 in PreK) and 32.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.2:1. The school's student body was 35.1% (93) White, 23.4% (62) Black, 15.8% (42) two or more races, 13.6% (32) Hispanic and 12.1% (32) Asian.[https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&ID=00863533 School data for Lacordaire Academy], National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2023.

The school was founded in 1920, and named for Pere Henri Lacordaire, a Dominican priest who lived in post-revolution Paris.[https://lacordaireacademy.com/mission-and-history/ Mission and History], Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024. "The Dominican sisters decided to call it Lacordaire School, named after père Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, who is credited for re-establishing the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is thought to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century. On September 15, 1920, with Sister Concepta as the principal, Sister Aloysius as the high school teacher, and Sister Andrea as the grade school teacher, Lacordaire School welcomed its first two students."