About Us

Welcome to Blessed Sacrament Huguenot Catholic School

Your child deserves a complete education. Blessed Sacrament Huguenot (BSH) is the only co-ed Catholic School in the Richmond, VA area that offers preschool through 12th grade to children of all faiths. Our staff and administration are dedicated to the whole child—creating an atmosphere of academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth. Everything we do here at BSH is designed to graduate students who are goal-oriented, socially and morally responsible, and equipped with the skills to be successful in higher education and in life. Blessed Sacrament Huguenot is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the National Catholic Education Association. BSH is a member of the Virginia Catholic Education Association and the Association of Virginia Academies.

Our history...

Blessed Sacrament Huguenot is the result of the historic merger of two independent schools, Blessed Sacrament High School at Belmead and Huguenot Academy, in September of 1998. 

Huguenot Academy was granted its charter by the State Corporation Commission of Virginia on August 31, 1959.  From its beginning in the basement of the old Bank of Powhatan building in 1959, the school moved to its present location on Academy Road in 1962.  The first teacher and head of the school was Mrs. Lilliam T. West.  Blessed Sacrament High School, headed by Dr. Lou Ross Hopewell, opened its doors in 1987 with 18 students in grades 8 and 9. 

Huguenot Academy was a non-sectarian school that grew into an institution for students in grades preschool through twelve.  The first graduating class of Huguenot Academy was the Class of 1964.  Blessed Sacrament High School was a Catholic school, with no parish affiliation, which grew into a school for students in grades 8-12 and had its first graduation in 1991. 

Huguenot Academy's enrollment increased to 1000 students, but as more private schools opened in the surrounding metropolitan area, enollment dropped; and at the time of the merger, there were 250 students enrolled.  Belmead was growing in enrollment but had no additional buildings in which to expand.  They leased the property from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and their board advised against building on land that they did not own.  Huguenot Academy sat on 40 acres of land and had 11 buildings for classes and athletic functions. 

After much discussion, it was decided that the two schools would merge, and the result is Blessed Sacrament Huguenot, a Catholic college-prepartory school for students in grades preschool through 12.