Mount Saint Dominic Academy

Mount Saint Dominic Academy has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1934.[3][5] Mount Saint Dominic Academy is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools[7] and the Dominican Association of Secondary Schools.[8] Sr. Frances Sullivan '60, O.P., is the Head of School. The school, whose motto is "empowering young women", has a graduation rate and a college acceptance rate of 100%. Students are accepted into and attend some of the most highly regarded colleges and universities nationwide.

The school shares a campus with Caldwell University and the Sisters of Saint Dominic that covers 21 acres (8.5 ha).[9] Facilities include state-of-the-art science labs, athletic center, and a 400+ seat performing arts center.[10]

Study, prayer, community, and service are the basis of religious education at Mount Saint Dominic Academy. The Siena Service Program is a four-year community service program that consists of a specific number of hours of approved service at in-school or outside agencies.

Mount Saint Dominic Academy provides students with a wide range of honors classes, including Mathematics, Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Psychics, Anatomy, U.S. History, Modern World History, Spanish, and French. Their AP courses include Psychology, World History, U.S. History, Spanish, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Chemistry, Biology, Psychics, and Statistics. Graduates from the class of 2014 were accepted into over 180 schools and were awarded more than $14 million in scholarships and grants.[10]

The Mount Saint Dominic Academy Lady Lions[2] compete in the Super Essex Conference which is comprised of private and public high schools in Essex County, operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[11] Before the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed in the Northern Hills Conference an athletic conference comprised of private and public high schools located in Essex, Morris and Passaic counties.[12] With 396 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public A for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 381 to 1,454 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group I for public schools).[13] The Mount offers a variety of both Varsity and JV teams, including sports such as basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball.[14] Approximately one half of the students participate in athletics.

The softball team won the Non-Public B state championship in 1994 (defeating Gloucester Catholic High School in the finals) and 1995 (vs. Eustace Preparatory School), and won the Non-Public A title in 2014 (vs. Immaculata High School).[15] In 1994, the team beat Gloucester Catholic by a score of 12-2 to win the Parochial B championship game and finish the season at 24-3.[16] The 1995 team finished the season with a record of 24-1 after defeating Bishop Eustace by a score of 7-0 in the championship game.[17] NJ.com / The Star-Ledger ranked Mount St. Dominic as their number-one softball team in the state in 1994.[18]

The basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 1994, defeating St. Rose High School in the tournament final.[19] The team entered the 1994 Tournament of Champions as the third seed, and defeated number-six seed Haddonfield Memorial High School by a score of 57-32 in the quarterfinals, second seed St. John Vianney High School by 74-55 in the semis and went on to win the championship with a 52-45 win against fifth-seeded Delsea Regional High School in the finals played at the Jadwin Gymnasium.[20][21]

The volleyball team won the Group I state championship in 1994, against runner-up Secaucus High School in the playoff finals.[22]

The track team won the indoor relay state championship in Non-Public Group IV in 2011 and 2018.[23] The 2011 indoor track team won the NJSIAA Non-Public Relays championship and the New Jersey Catholic Track Conference championship and finished second by a single point to perennial powerhouse Columbia High School at the Essex County Track Championships, where The Mount team set several records.[24]

The track team won the indoor track public state championship in Non-Public Group B in 2010-2012 and 2016.[25]

The school's swim team won the Non-Public Group B state title in 2012, ending the season with a 13–0 record and winning conference and county titles in addition to the program's first state championship.[26][27]

The spring track team was the Non-Public Group B state champion in 2012.[28]

Mount Saint Dominic Academy offers a variety of arts courses, such as Drawing, Photography, AP Studio Art, and Graphic Design; and extracurriculars such as its Art Club, Fall Drama, Spring Musical, and Choir and A Capella groups.

• Whitney Houston (1963–2012), seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer.[29][30]
• Donna Leon (born 1942), author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.[31]
• L. Grace Spencer (born 1968, class of 1986), judge of the New Jersey Superior Court who served in the New Jersey General Assembly where she represented the 29th Legislative District from 2008 to 2016.[32]

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• Data for Mount Saint Dominic Academy, National Center for Education Statistics