Growing Academy
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Enrollment increased steadily for many years, encouraging the sisters to purchase a tract of land in Northwest Waco and lay plans for the construction of a larger school. However, these plans never came to fruition, and the Sisters donated the twenty-three acres to the Diocese of Galveston in 1941. Two parochial schools—St. Louis School and Reicher High School—later opened at that site and remain active today.
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Academy of the Sacred Heart
On the corner of Eighth Street and Washington Avenue once stood a Catholic school and convent that taught thousands of students during its years of operation from 1874 to 1946. The Academy of the Sacred Heart received its name partially because theā¦