Notre Dame High School of Acadia Parish

A nonprofit organization

At the heart of Notre Dame High School is our devotion to the Blessed Mother and our commitment to cultivate and celebrate our Catholic faith. Our Campus Ministry program provides a variety of activities, programs and projects that seek to model Christ's example of loving and serving others. Through this service, students and staff can grow spiritually as individuals and as a community of faith.

In 1995, Fr. Jude Halphen, founded our Campus Ministry program and initiated the building of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapel on the Notre Dame campus. Over the last 20 years, Campus Ministry has grown and evolved, impacting hundreds of students and families. Campus Ministry offers faith formation for our students and staff, along with opportunities to participate in and lead retreats and serve others through projects, mission trips, and pilgrimages. Encounter Nights, Guy's and Girls' Group Meetings, and Apologetics Sessions allow students to grow in faith together. Students can be commissioned as Eucharistic Ministers and be trained as sacristans, serving at school masses and in their home parishes.

Your support for Campus Ministry will allow us to expand our reach through additional service projects, enhancements to school liturgies, access to national speakers, and funding for mission trips, retreats, and more.

Who We Are

Notre Dame High School of Acadia Parish opened in 1967. It was formed by consolidating the three existing Catholic high schools in Acadia Parish; St. Francis in Iota, St. Joseph in Rayne, and St. Michael in Crowley. Ownership feeder schools for Notre Dame include Redemptorist and St. Michael in Crowley, St. Francis in Iota, and Rayne Catholic Elementary in Rayne.

Notre Dame is owned by eight church parishes located in the civil parish of Acadia; St. Michael and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Crowley; St. Joseph in Rayne; St. Joseph in Iota; St. Leo IV in Roberts Cove; Immaculate Conception in Morse; St. John the Baptist in Lyons Point; St. Lawrence in Mowata. It is governed by an elected Advisory Council and is supervised by a Chancellor and by the Diocese of Lafayette.