The Band performs at athletic games, Mardi Gras parades, festivals, and other school events.

Jeremiah Moynihan, Pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in New Orleans, to teach the children of the Irish immigrants.

These Dominican women, educated in the humanities and the fine arts, opened St. John the Baptist School for Girls on December 3, 1860, with a recorded attendance of 200.

[3] By 1861, the New Orleans Female Dominican Academy was chartered under Louisiana State laws as an "Institute for literary, scientific, religious, and charitable purposes."

[3] In 1881, permission was received from the Archbishop to build a new academy on the property at Greenville; the cornerstone was laid in 1882.

[3] In 1900, Mother Mary de Ricci, assistant to the Prioress, called a preliminary meeting of all former pupils of Dominican Academy for the purpose of establishing an Alumnae Association.

In 1996, Dominican was recognized again by the United States Department of Education and was selected as a National Blue Ribbon School.