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Sacred Heart Academy is a Catholic college preparatory school for young women owned and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Mission Empowered by learning, SHA women strive for academic excellence... Impassioned by legacy, SHA women honor the 10,000 in whose steps they follow... Inspired by inclusive love, SHA women embrace the mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Since 1949, more than 10,000 young women have been transformed by the "SHA Experience." Sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Brentwood, Sacred Heart Academy is unique among private, Catholic secondary schools in the New York area. Our rigorous academic standards... deep commitment to the mission of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph (CSJ)... and extraordinarily tight-knit, supportive community empower young women for success in college and a life of leadership and service rooted in the mission of Jesus. Established in Hempstead, New York by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, Sacred Heart Academy is a Catholic college-preparatory school whose singular purpose is to educate and elevate high-achieving young women. We are committed to bringing about union and reconciliation, universal tolerance and forgiveness by awakening in our learning community an awareness of God‰Ûªs inclusive love. We strive through the highest academic and spiritual standards to prepare, empower, impassion, and inspire women leaders who are mindful of the call to work for peace and justice in an increasingly interdependent global community. Steeped in the CSJ charism, we prayerfully aspire to foster passionate and purposeful love of learning within an atmosphere of Hospitality, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Truthfulness, so as to encourage the formation of those entrusted to our care as ‰ÛÏWomen of HEART.‰Û