Nazareth Academy was an independent all-girls Catholic high school in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

[4] On April 14, 2009, by unanimous vote of the Wakefield School Committee, the new Nazareth Academy was granted official school status by the Town of Wakefield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, indicating approval of the Academy's curriculum and state recognition for its graduates' diplomas.

Girls and their families who were interested in an all-girls educational environment were invited to attend The Academy at Penguin Hall, a new school in Wenham, located in a mansion which had served as a residence for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur from 1962 until the mid-1990s.

Nazareth Academy was housed at the former Hurd school on Cordis Street in Wakefield, near Lake Quannapowitt.

The academy was the sole respondent to a request for proposals the town issued in March 2009 to use the vacant building.