Providence Academy (Plymouth, Minnesota)

Providence Academy is a private, co-ed, Catholic college-preparatory PreK–12 school in Plymouth, Minnesota founded in 2001.

It is located in and affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

At the end of the 1990s, Dan Frederick (former president of Alarmex), Bill Cooper (president of TCF Bank Minnesota), Bob Cummins (executive at Primera Technology), and prominent businessmen in the Twin Cities area raised $20 million to fund a new private school "grounded in Judeo-Christian values.

"[2] Not long after the announcement of its establishment, Providence became an official Catholic school associated with the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

[5] In 2006, a $14 million, 95,000 square foot addition added 16 new classrooms, including new engineering laboratories, a lecture hall, media center, and science and technology labs.