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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.[6] From 1990 to 2008, administration shifted to the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.[7] The school colors are blue and white, and the school's athletes are known as the Blue Eagles.[3]
Immaculate Heart Academy has been accredited by the Commission on Secondary Schools of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1971.[4] For the 1996-97 school year, Immaculate Heart Academy was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[8]
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 734 students and 58.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1. The school's student body was 84.2% White, 1.5% Black, 8.7% Hispanic, 4.0% Asian, 0.7% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, 0.4% American Indian / Alaska Native and 0.5% two or more races.[2] 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.