VINCENTIAN ACADEMY

'Vincentian Academy' is a Roman Catholic college preparatory school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Founded in 1932 as 'Vincentian High School', it began its affiliation with Duquesne University in 1995. The Academy comprises three buildings housed on a 67-acre campus in McCandless Township, a north suburb of Pittsburgh. There is an approximate 9:1 student-to-teacher ratio.^[2]

Contents

Enrollment

Academics

The IB Program

School Alma Mater

References

External links

Enrollment

The current enrollment consists of 60 freshmen, 49 sophomores, 59 juniors, and 74 seniors, a total of 242 students.

Academics

Vincentian Academy's website [1] records statistics that claim an SAT Verbal mean of 594 and Math mean of 573 for the senior classes of 2003 and 2004. Vincentian is one of twelve schools in Pennsylvania that offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.

The IB Program

At Vincentian Academy approximately 80% of all juniors and seniors take some IB courses. Overall, 84% of all those students taking IB exams pass. Over the past eight years Vincentian IB diploma candidates have achieved an 82% pass rate which is higher than the world pass rate of 78% and significantly higher than the United States pass rate of approximately 75%.^[3]
It is significant that Vincentian is the only Catholic, university-affiliated, International Baccalaureate school in the world.

School Alma Mater

The school alma mater dates from the founding of Vincentian High School, and so retains that wording.

References

1. About Vincentian
2. Quick facts
3. International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Vincentian Academy

External links

★ ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' article about the IB at Vincentian

★ History of Vincentian Academy

★ Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Home Page