Immaculata-La Salle High School

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Immaculata-LaSalle High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami and located between Mercy Hospital and Vizcaya on South Bayshore Drive.The school was officially founded as Immaculata Academy, a Roman Catholic college preparatory school for girls, on September 1, 1958. The Sisters of St. Joseph Congregation of St. Augustine FL were the school's founding religious order. The school is now run by the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco.History of the schoolImmaculata AcademyOn November 5, 1945, Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of the Diocese of St. Augustine purchased 130 of the original 160acre: 68acre on the Bayside and 61acre opposite in the pineland of James Deering’s Vizcaya estate, from Deering's heirs.In 1950, Mercy Hospital was founded next to the property by the Sisters of St. Joseph Congregation of St. Augustine to serve the booming post-World War II population.On August 9, 1958 Sister Mary Damian, SSJ – Immaculata Academy community superior – and Sister Marie de Lourdes Ortagus, SSJ – Immaculata Academy principal – arrived at Mercy Hospital. Immaculata Academy was built adjacent to Mercy Hospital facing the shores of Biscayne Bay.