Sacred Heart Academy is an all-girls Catholic high school in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sacred Heart Academy's history began in 1858, when a request for teachers from the Ursuline Sisters of Germany came from Louisville, KY. Three young Ursulines answered the request, traveling to Louisville to teach German immigrant children at St. Martin's school.

[4] The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, Kentucky, are an apostolic religious congregation of the Catholic Church, rooted in the spirit and tradition of Saint Angela Merici.

Sacred Heart Academy teaches the Ursuline Core Values of community, reverence, service, and leadership.

Community is taught over the course of students' freshman year, reverence for their sophomore, service for their junior, and leadership for their senior.