Le Mans Academy

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Founded in 1955 as Sacred Heart Military Academy in Watertown, Wisconsin, Le Mans Academy was a boarding middle school (grades 5-9) for boys located 90 minutes east of Chicago, Illinois near La Porte, Indiana on 700 acres (2.8 km²) of land. It was sponsored by the Brothers of Holy Cross from the University of Notre Dame.

[edit] History

With its highest enrollment in years--more than 110 boarding students from across the U.S., Mexico, South Korea, and other nations--Le Mans Academy closed its doors in the spring of 2003 because the Catholic religious order which founded and sponsored the school--the Brothers of Holy Cross, Midwest Province--needed to liquidate an available asset (the Academy's campus was sold and its endowment claimed) to help meet the rising cost of health care for its aging population of religious Brothers. The first lay Headmaster in the Academy's history--Mr. Steven Cash--was also the last Headmaster.

The Campus was purchased by the Legionaries of Christ to open an apostolic school[1]