Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
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Founder's Hall, the main academic building
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1524 35th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′34″N 77°4′9″W / 38.90944°N 77.06917°WCoordinates: 38°54′34″N 77°4′9″W / 38.90944°N 77.06917°W |
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| Type | Private High School |
| Motto | Fides et Scientia ((Latin: Faith and Science)) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic (Visitandines) |
| Founded | 1799 |
| Founder | Katie "The Boss" Ward |
| President | Sr. Mary Berchmans Hannan |
| Dean | Sue Forman |
| Principal | Mary Kate Blaine |
| Headmaster | Daniel M. Kerns, Jr. |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Female |
| Enrollment | approximately 475 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13:1 |
| Campus | Urban, 45 acres (0.18 km2) |
| Song | Cor Jesu |
| Athletics | 21 teams |
| Athletics conference | Independent School League |
| Sports | 13 sports |
| Mascot | The Gold Team Tigers The White Team Bears |
| Team name | The Cubs |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Affiliation | Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary |
| Website | http://www.visi.org/ |
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School is a private Roman Catholic college-preparatory school for girls located in the historic Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. Founded in 1799 by the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (also known as the Visitation Sisters), it is one of the oldest continuously-operating school for girls in the country and the city as well as the oldest Catholic school for girls in the original Thirteen Colonies. It is located within the Archdiocese of Washington.
Georgetown Visitation Monastery was founded at the request of Archbishop Leonard Neale, president of Georgetown College, with Teresa Lalor. The Visitation order is Salesian, basing its spirituality on the teachings of Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane Frances de Chantal. One of St. Francis’s central teachings is, “Be who you are and be that well.” A second teaching still imparted to the students of Visitation is, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing so gentle as real strength.” While the Sisters of the Visitation no longer teach the majority of classes at the school, they maintain an active presence in daily life there by teaching homeroom, participating in school events, and reaching out to students and their families.
The monastery and school at Georgetown Visitation have been active participants in the history of Washington, DC. The sisters operated the Georgetown Academy for Young Ladies alongside free classes on Saturdays for girls of all races. At a time when it was still illegal to teach slaves to read, both free blacks and slaves learned at the Visitation monastery. During the War of 1812, the Visitation campus was used as a hospital for soldiers wounded when the British set fire to the city of Washington. The walls and corridors of Founders Hall display the family heirlooms and portraits that were given to the school in lieu of tuition payment during the hard economic times of the American Civil War, World War I and World War II.
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