Providence Academy is a private, co-ed, Catholic college-preparatory PreKâÂÂ12 school in Plymouth, Minnesota, United States, It was founded in 2001. It is located in and affiliated with the 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 other prominent businessmen in the Twin Cities area raised $20 million to fund a new private school "grounded in Judeo-Christian values". Not long after the announcement of its establishment, Providence became an official Catholic school associated with the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Ground was broken on March 25, 2000, and the school opened in September 2001.
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.
The buildings on the 41-acre campus are modeled on the campus of the College of William & Mary.
With Saint Agnes School in Saint Paul, Providence is one of two K-12 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is a college-prep school accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. The composite mean ACT score of the classes of 20212023 was 29, and 97% of graduates enrolled in four-year colleges.
Providence girls' basketball won the Class AA state tournament in 2012, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Girls' soccer won the Class A championship in 2024. Girls' Class A track and field won the state championship in 2008.
Providence provides the following athletic programs with the Minnesota State High School League: