St. Joseph Hill Academy
St. Joseph Hill High School is a private girls' school in the Arrochar neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. Located on a scenic 14-acre (57,000 m2) campus (which eponymously stands atop a hill, providing views of the Manhattan skyline), the school serves approximately 400 young women in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades and is accompanied by a coeducational wing for students in pre-K through 8th. The school was founded and is operated by the Daughters of Divine Charity; a majority of the school population is Roman Catholic, although the school is independent of the Archdiocese of New York.
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