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Mount Saint Mary Academy is a four-year private high school for girls, located in Watchung, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen, the school operates financially independent of the Diocese. The Academy was founded in 1908 by the Sisters of Mercy of New Jersey and opened with 77 students. A fire destroyed the main building in 1911, but the school reopened in the following year and has grown steadily. In the 1980s and 1990s it was a boarding school that housed local, out of state and international students.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 370 students and 37.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The school's student body was 86.5% White, 5.7% Hispanic, 4.3% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, 1.6% Black, 1.4% Asian and 0.5% two or more races.
Mount Saint Mary Academy has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1937. It holds membership in the National Association of Independent Schools, the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, the National Catholic Educational Association, the College Board, and the Educational Records Bureau.