Incarnate Word Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary girls' school located in Downtown

Downtown Houston

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 Houston, Texas

Texas

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, United States

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Incarnate Word serves grades 9 through 12 and is administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

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 and by the sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament congregation.

Student body

As of the 2011-2012 school year, school's racial percentages are as follows :

• Hispanic
  Hispanic
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  : 31%
• White American
  White American
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  : 40%
• African-American: 12%
• Multi-racial: 10%
• Asian
  Asian people
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  /Pacific Islander
  Pacific Islander
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  : 6%

History

Incarnate Word Academy was established by the Congregation of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in 1873. It was the first permanent Catholic School in Houston.

External links

• Incarnate Word Academy