Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy - Boarding Program

Boarding Program

Flintridge Sacred Heart is home to approximately 50 boarding students, many of whom are international students who travel a considerable distance to attend. For the 2012-13 academic year, boarders from the following countries call FSHA their home: United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Vietnam. Recent years have also seen boarders from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Guatemala, India, Macau, Nigeria, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Spain.

Boarding students take a standard schedule of courses, though three classes – Writing, Grammar Intensive; United States History for International Students; and American Government for International Students – take into account the fact that many boarders do not speak English as a first language. Each international boarding student takes the TOEFL each year to measure progress in written and verbal English. There are also leadership opportunities for available exclusively for boarding students, including participation in the Boarding Student Council, the Boarding Student Ambassadors, or as a writer for the At Home on the Hill section of Veritas Shield, the student newspaper. Many international boarding students have graduated from FSHA to attend four-year colleges in the U.S.

The boarding halls contain 23 rooms, with two to three girls sharing each room. In order to foster interaction among students from different cultures, the director of boarding students makes a consistent effort to assign students from different countries as roommates. Every room is equipped with wireless Internet, bed, chest of drawers, bookcase, desk and chair for each student, walk-in closet, private bathroom with shower and tub, locker for valuables, lighted ceiling fans and heaters. Scheduled outings take students to Southern California landmarks, including Disneyland and Mammouth.