Benet Academy ( ; often shortened to Benet ) is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet.

Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus.

Benet Academy was created from the merger of the St. Procopius Academy for boys and Sacred Heart Academy for girls in 1967.

The Benet Academy campus in Lisle began as an orphanage.

On July 16, 1911, a new building was dedicated on the grounds of what is now Benet Academy, the same day the cornerstone was laid for the nearby Sacred Heart Convent.

Map of the Benet Academy campus.

Under Abbot Kucera's leadership, St. Procopius Academy and Sacred Heart Academy merged to form Benet ( an anglicized form of " Benedict ") Academy in 1967, on the former St. Procopius campus.

Benet Academy is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the National Catholic Educational Association.

* Benet Academy official website

Each fall, Neuqua also participates in a women's ' powderpuff football tournament with Waubonsie, Metea, Naperville Central, Naperville North, and Benet Academy in Lisle.

* Benet Academy Redwings

An alumnus of Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois, he attended eight different colleges before deciding to pursue an acting career.

The Lisle Village Board blocked construction, charging that Benet had not notified the local community of the pending construction, to which Benet replied that " the school was there prior to the homes being constructed ".

In 1926 Benedictine nuns constructed the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy near the orphanage and school in Lisle.