The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

* Ursuline Academy and Convent

* July – History of the Ursulines in New Orleans: Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they found the orphanage which is the predecessor of the Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, making the latter the oldest continuously-operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

The neighborhood is home to two Catholic schools, Ursuline Academy and Padua Academy.

Many of the children however, go to Catholic Parish Schools such as Saint Joseph's of Cottleville ; also, many parents choose to educate their children in catholic primary schools ( Academy of the Sacred Heart, Visitation Academy, Priory, and Saint Peters School are the biggest ones ) and Catholic secondary education ( Cor Jesu Academy, Nerinx Hall, Ursuline Academy, Visitation Academy, Incarnate Word Academy, Chaminade Academy, Christian Brothers College ( CBC ) High School, De Smet Jesuit High School, Saint Louis University High School ( SLUH ), and Duchesne Academy are the most popular.

Private education is provided by Moeller High School for high school boys, while Ursuline Academy is for high school girls.

The city is also served by the private schools of Moeller High School for boys and Ursuline Academy for girls.

* Ursuline Academy ( disambiguation )

She was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Ursuline Academy of New Orleans.

Her father was employed as a DuPont executive and she attended Ursuline Academy.

Several schools named after the Ursuline religious institute, including several named Ursuline Academy.

Ursuline Academy or similar may refer to:

* Ursuline Academy ( Delaware )

He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.

Some schools, such as Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago, Illinois the Roberto Clemente Charter School in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Roberto Clemente Academy in Detroit, Michigan, were named in his honor.

* Wheaton Academy founded in West Chicago, Illinois.

Turning down a possible appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Chaffee accepted a Naval ROTC scholarship and in September 1953 enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Beiderbecke's parents enrolled him in the exclusive Lake Forest Academy, north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois.

* Hyde Park Career Academy, Chicago, Illinois, United States

In 2004, Brin received the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award with Larry Page at a ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.

* Wheaton Academy, West Chicago, Illinois

Jones attended Monte Cassino, a girls ' school and junior college in Tulsa and then Northwestern University in Illinois, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, before transferring to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1938.

Hearn grew up in Aurora, Illinois in west suburban Chicago and attended high school at Marmion Academy and college at Bradley University.

* Leon M. Lederman, professor of physics ; Nobel laureate in physics ( 1988 ); Director Emeritus of Fermilab ; founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, grew up and attended high school in Marshfield, Wisconsin, although he attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois his junior year.

The Naval station in Dahlgren, Virginia, Dahlgren Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and several ships were named for him, as was Dahlgren, Illinois, and Dahlgren Township, Minnesota.

Meredosia is also the site of the most northerly verified catch of the Alligator gar ; the most recent specimen verified by the Illinois Academy of Sciences was caught there in 1922.

Although there was a great outcry when a Canadian was cast as an American president, he scored a great triumph on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and repeated his role in the 1940 film version ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ).

He went to Springfield, Illinois, to study law, but at the age of 17 he was appointed to the United States Military Academy.

Tibbets graduated from Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois and later attended the University of Florida in Gainesville and was an initiated member of the Epsilon Zeta Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity in 1934.

He then moved to Freeport, Illinois and became principal of the Freeport Business College and Academy from 1875 – 1876 and then principal of the Normal Department of the Rock River University, 1876-77.

Then he taught in Dixon, Illinois where he was also co-founder of the Dixon Business College and Academy, 1877-1879.

Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois and, following a brief period at Monmouth College, he entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1943.

Infosys Labs collaborates with leading national and international universities such as the University of Southern California, University of Cambridge, Queensland University of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – Monash Research Academy, Purdue University, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

* Hillsboro Academy, Historical Society of Montgomery County Illinois

Harlow attended the Ferry Hall School ( now Lake Forest Academy ) in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Norwood, who at that time was the first state geologist of Illinois, sent the specimen to Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.