Type Private, All-Girls Established 1921 Superintendent Janet Donato Colors White, Blue | Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic Oversight Diocese of Memphis Phone +1 901-725-2705 | |
Rector Monsignor Val Handwerker Address 1725 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38104, USA Mascot Immaculate Conception Cathedral High School Wild cat Alumnis Priscilla Presley, Margaret Scobey Similar Cathedral of the Immacula, Memphis Catholic Middle an, Middle College High Sch, Central High School, St George's Independ | ||
Immaculate Conception Cathedral School is a private, Roman Catholic school in the heart of the historic Central Gardens neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. ICCS serves students of all faiths in its Pre-K3 through 8th grade coed elementary school and its 9th through 12th all-girls high school.
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Background
Founded in 1921 by the Sisters of Mercy, ICCS shares the campus of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as a unit school. The high school is the only parochial high school in the Diocese of Memphis.
ICCS's core mission is to provide academic excellence and to help develop strong moral character in a faith-based environment for students of all faiths, races and ethnicities. It prides itself on being one of the most diverse private school in the Memphis metropolitan area. The school's flagship programs include Spanish immersion classes in the early childhood and elementary schools, elementary enrichment program for advanced students, daily foreign language courses in middle school, and Accelerated Reader. High school students have the opportunity to earn college credit in Science and French through Christian Brothers University. For honors science courses, high school student attend classes alongside college students at Christian Brothers University in the new Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences.
Fundraising will begin in fall 2012 for a capital campaign to build a new Cathedral Center on Central Avenue. This new building will include a media center, Pre-K and kindergarten classrooms, theater, and meeting spaces for parish ministries.