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Immaculate Heart School, pre-K through 12th grade, was founded in 1930 by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Our school community has evolved over the years from being a one-room school with three students to a college preparatory facility serving over 400 students.
However, today one thing remains a time-honored tradition: a values-based curriculum integrated with academic excellence and Catholic morality and doctrine.
School Motto: COR MATRIS AD COR FILII Del Corazon de la Madre al Corazon del Hijo
The Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary were founded in Olot,
Spain on July 1, 1848 by Rev. Dr. Joaquin Masmitja y de Puig, a
parish priest, who was inspired by his own personal devotion to
Mary and saw the need for a Congregation dedicated to the
education, evangelization, and prayer for the salvation of souls.
Evangelization through education is the main apostolate of the
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In 1917, the Sisters were
on their way from Mexico to California where they had already
established five schools. Their journey was interrupted by Bishop
Granjon who requested that the Sisters stay in Tucson, Arizona to
teach at Holy Cross School, now known as Santa Cruz. Immaculate
Heart School officially opened its doors to receive Tucson's
Catholic sons and daughters at the elementary and high school
levels in the year 1930 at a downtown site near Sixth and
Fifteenth. Seventeen sisters originally staffed the original
school. In the year 2020, IHS, at 90 years old, is the oldest,
continuously operating Catholic High School in Tucson. Because of
an ever-increasing enrollment exceeding five hundred students for
the 1961-62 school year, plans were formulated to separate the high
school from the elementary grades. The class of 1962 was the last
to graduate from IHS at its downtown campus. To them belong the
fond memories of the palm-shaded campus on East Fifteenth Street
where young women had received their secondary education for over
thirty years. While the downtown Academy continued to accommodate
children in kindergarten through eighth grade, the high school was
transferred to the new location on East Magee Road. From 1963 until
1970 the secondary school was known as Immaculate Heart High
School, but the name was changed to Suffolk Hills Catholic High
School in 1971. The high school earned accreditation from North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools in 1988 as well as the
Western Catholic Educational Association. In 1990, the name was
changed back to its original name of Immaculate Heart High School,
a coeducational school. It continues to be accredited as a College
Preparatory High School and is also a member of the National
Catholic Educational Association, Washington, D.C. The elementary
school joined the high school at its Magee site in 1987 and has
since been accredited by WCEA as well. They are now joined together
as the Immaculate Heart School, pre-school through 12. The mission
of Sisters' of the Immaculate Heart of Mary has always been to
serve the children of the community.
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