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WE ARE committed to educational excellence in a Christian environment
To accomplish our mission, Ascension Episcopal School offers programs that:
Nurture the spirit and inspire stewardship
Sharpen the mind by stimulating the intellect, and encouraging creativity and truth seeking
Foster servant leadership opportunities that positively shape character
Promote healthy decision-making and life-long fitness by conditioning the body for healthy living and competitive interscholastic activity
Ascension Episcopal School is dedicated to creating and sustaining an environment in which we help each other identify, grow, and utilize our unique, God-given gifts and talents to build affirming relationships, to serve others, and to glorify God.
Student Leaders Plan for the New Year During Prefect Retreat
The 2020 - 2021 Sugar Mill Pond Prefect leaders attended their annual retreat earlier this summer. According to Mrs. Robert, Prefect advisor, “they came in with spirits and hearts afire!” Students participated in team-building activities and devoted many hours to preparing for the new school year. Mrs. Robert says, “They were mature, creative, supportive, open-minded, excited, and overall dedicated to making our next Ascension school year a special one.”
Broussard's Ortego proud of runner-up finish at Louisiana State Amateur
The Advocate: Eli Ortego didn’t have a frame of reference last weekend in his second appearance in the Louisiana Golf Association’s State Amateur Championship.The Broussard product and rising senior at Ascension Episcopal High had played in the 2019 edition of the state’s premier amateur golf event and was hovering near the top 10 after 74-72 opening rounds at Baton Rouge Country Club. That’s before the wheels came off over the weekend when Ortego struggled to a 76-82 finish and wound up 37th.“I struggled on the weekend last year,” he said, “so this year wasn’t quite the same as last year.”
Two Ascension Teams Place in State STEM Competition
How can we provide 3rd world countries with a safe, efficient, and cheap way to filter unclean drinking water? How can we boost plant growth for a more productive corn crop? Two 8th grade teams in Mrs. Rachael Futch’s Biology 1 accelerate honors class decided to solve these problems utilizing the engineering design process in eCYBERMISSION’s annual competition. According to their website, “eCYBERMISSION is a web-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) competition for students in grades six through nine that promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM.”