Providence Academy is a

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PreK–12 school in

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founded in 2001. It is located in and affiliated with the

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History

At the end of the 1990s, Dan Frederick (former president of Alarmex), Bill Cooper (president of

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Minnesota), Bob Cummins (executive at Primera Technology), and prominent businessmen in the Twin Cities area raised $20 million to fund a new private school "grounded in Judeo-Christian values." Not long after the announcement of its establishment, Providence became an official Catholic school associated with the

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. Ground was broken on March 25, 2000. It opened in September 2001. In 2006, a $14 million, 95,000 square foot addition added 16 new classrooms, including new engineering laboratories, a lecture hall, media center, and science and technology labs.

Campus

The buildings on the 41-acre campus are modeled on the

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in Virginia.

Academics

With

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in Saint Paul, it is one of two K-12 Catholic schools in the

. Providence is a college-prep school accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. The composite mean ACT score of the classes of 20212023 was 29, and 97% of graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

Athletics

Providence girls' basketball won the Class AA state tournament in 2012, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Girls' soccer won the Class A championship in 2024. Girls' Class A track and field won the state championship in 2008. Providence provides the following athletic programs with the

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Notable students/alumni

* Maddyn Greenway, daughter of Chad Greenway * Ari Peterson, daughter of

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* Michael George, former Leprechaun for the

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from 2011-2012 * Louis Wehmann, NCAA hockey player at Cornell University (graduated 2024)

References

External links

Providence Academy Website
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