Loretto Academy is a private Roman Catholic school in El Paso, Texas.

[2] The Sisters of Loretto had previously established several schools in Las Cruces and El Paso.

[3][4] In the early 1920s, Mother M. Praxedes Carty of the Sisters of Loretto came to El Paso to establish a new school.

[5] On March 20, 1922, she purchased 19 acres of land in the Austin Terrace area, which was considered a bad place to put the school.

Loretto Academy in El Paso opened on September 11, 1923 with 186 students, of which 20 lived at the school as boarders.