As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 255 students (plus 17 in PreK) and 32.3 classroom teachers (on anFTE basis), for astudent–teacher ratio of 7.9:1. The school's student body was 34.5% (88) White, 23.9% (61) Black, 16.9% (43) two or more races, 14.9% (38) Hispanic and 9.8% (25) Asian.[1]
The school was founded in 1920, and named for PereHenri Lacordaire, a Dominican priest who lived in post-revolution Paris.[9]
Lacordaire Academy provides many clubs and organizations that students can join based on their own interests and availability. At Lacordaire, a student can create any club that she desires as long as they find a moderator and people to join.
All Upper School students follow a college preparatory program. All requirements must be fulfilled or substituted with a course of equal value. Required:
^Mission and History, Lacordaire Academy. Accessed January 20, 2024. "The Dominican sisters decided to call it Lacordaire School, named after père Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, who is credited for re-establishing the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France and is thought to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century. On September 15, 1920, with Sister Concepta as the principal, Sister Aloysius as the high school teacher, and Sister Andrea as the grade school teacher, Lacordaire School welcomed its first two students."
^"Sister Elizabeth",Democrat and Chronicle, January 18, 1972. Accessed October 25, 2017. "She attended a small girl's high school, Lacordaire in Montclair. The school, across the street from the McAlister home had a senior class of 13 when Maureen graduated.... In June of 1961, Maureen became Sister Elizabeth McAlister, then devoted her full energies to completing the last two years of study at Marymount."
