Immaculate Heart Middle School & High School

As we begin our 113th year of educating the minds and hearts of young women, it is with great pride that we reflect on our rich history and decades of cherished traditions. Most of all, we celebrate more than a century of nurturing the spiritual, intellectual, social and moral development of students whose formal education has been entrusted to our care.

True to our philosophy and mission, we have long been committed to addressing the uniqueness of each individual and thereby strengthening her belief in herself and in her seemingly unlimited potential. Many of our earliest graduates were pioneers in fields rarely open to women. Today, virtually 100% of our students go on to college immediately after graduation, often to some of the most prestigious in the country. Our alumnae, who number more than 10,000, have distinguished themselves as women of great heart and right conscience through their leadership and service in the home, in the church, in the community and in their professional lives.

An independent, Catholic, college preparatory school, governed by a board of trustees, we have been located on a beautiful hillside property in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles since our founding by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1906. We continue to attract very talented and highly motivated young women who represent the religious, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity of the City of Los Angeles and its suburbs. Our students are immersed in an exciting and challenging curriculum that inspires a love of learning while demanding the focus and self-discipline necessary for success in college and beyond.

Complementing the academic program, we offer a wide spectrum of extracurricular activities designed to help students to explore their interests and to tap into their special gifts and talents. Immaculate Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school dedicated to the intellectual vitality, spiritual growth, moral strength, and social-emotional development of its students. Immaculate Heart fosters academic excellence and creativity in an environment that empowers students to become women of great heart and right conscience. Students embrace a life-long commitment to compassionate service, leadership, and humanitarian values.

Immaculate Heart strives to fulfill its mission by its commitment to a Christian philosophy, its stated goals, its program of instruction carefully designed to meet the increasing needs of women in the contemporary world, its liturgies and days of recollection, its activities, and its policies and programs, which foster the spiritual, intellectual, social, and aesthetic development of the student. In addition, Immaculate Heart's mission is facilitated by a competent, caring, and supportive administration, faculty and staff who have utmost respect for the uniqueness of the individual and the religious and ethnic diversity of their students.

While Immaculate Heart recognizes that parents are the primary educators of their children, the school assists parents by helping their daughters to develop in such a way that they will become women of great heart and of right conscience; knowledgeable and concerned about the earth and the global community in which they live; creative as problem-solvers; capable of building on their appreciation of and acquired skills in the humanities and sciences; aware that learning is a lifetime endeavor; and convinced that, ultimately, all must develop within themselves a capacity for integrity, wisdom, humor, joy, peace and love, so as to "make gentle the life of this world." Our Goals:

• To help students to mature in their faith, to refine their own consciences, and to achieve a sense of moral power, as women, that will enable them to think and judge clearly and to live responsibly;
• To help students to experience the satisfaction and joy that can be found in the learning experience, and to develop an appreciation of and a readiness to pursue life-long learning;
• To help students develop an understanding of and appreciation for the economic, religious, political, ethnic, cultural, and social diversity of the world, and to recognize the responsibility that each person has to contribute to the well-being of the global community and to the care of the earth;
• To help students to develop an appreciation of and proficiency in language, science, mathematics, and the arts;
• To help students to develop leadership skills and a life-long commitment to service;
• To help students to experience the joy of being a member of a nurturing school community through collaborative learning, school-wide celebrations and play; and
• To help students to be competent and self-confident users of technology and wise consumers of information.

The technology goal of Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School is to effectively prepare all students for a multicultural, global, digital, 21st Century world by providing them with the necessary resources and essential skills they will need for college and their future careers. These skills include the ability and confidence to use a broad range of technologies for problem-solving, research, productivity, communications and lifelong learning. Technology should always serve to improve student academic achievement and to enhance the curriculum with challenging, purposeful instructional design.