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The School of the Sacred Heart is an international network of private Catholic schools that are run by or affiliated with the Society of the Sacred Heart, which was founded in France by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat.
The following is a list of schools operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, which covers Cook and Lake counties, followed by a list of former high schools closed after 1959 and former K-8 schools closed after 1983.
Sacred Heart Schools, 146 years in Chicago. In 1876, just five years after the Great Chicago Fire, Mother Elizabeth Tucker and three other Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) arrived from St. Louis to open a school for young women.
Convent schools (also called monastic schools) emerged in Europe during the Early Middle Ages (c. 500 – 1000). With the disappearance of classical Roman culture in western Europe, monasteries became sites for education.
Whether you visit any one of the 150+ Sacred Heart network schools or engage with global visitors here at 91st Street, students find unity in the shared mission that binds the Sacred Heart community across the world.
In 1861, three of the nuns came to Chicago to teach German-speaking children. They established St. Joseph's Convent and School, as well as their own girls' academy, originally at Chicago and Wabash Avenues in the city.
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The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught at the parochial schools in Chicago, Skokie Waukegan, Illinois. They also established mission schools in Colorado in Breckenridge, Delta, Pueblo, and Salida. St. Scholastica Academy in Canon City served as a day and boarding school for young women from 1890 until it closed in 2001.
