Immaculate Heart Academy

Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA) is an all-girls college preparatory private Roman Catholic high school located in Washington Township, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The school was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace as the first regional high school for girls in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. In 1990, administration shifted to the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The school colors are blue and white, and the school's athletes are known as the Blue Eagles.

Immaculate Heart Academy has been accredited by the Commission on Secondary Schools of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1971. For the 1996-97 school year, Immaculate Heart Academy was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 838 students and 62.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1.

Students come to IHA from Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County and Hudson County in New Jersey, and from Rockland County and Orange County in New York.

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