Mount de Sales Academy (Catonsville, Maryland)
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700 Academy Road Catonsville, Maryland, (Baltimore County) 21228 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°17′9″N 76°43′17″W / 39.28583°N 76.72139°WCoordinates: 39°17′9″N 76°43′17″W / 39.28583°N 76.72139°W |
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| Type | Private |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
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Roman Catholic (Dominicans) |
| Patron saint(s) | Saint Francis de Sales |
| Established | 1852 |
| Founder | Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary |
| Sister school | Mount Saint Joseph High School |
| Authority | Archdiocese of Baltimore |
| NCES School ID | 00578546 |
| Principal | Sister Mary Thomas Huffman O.P. |
| Vice Principal of Academic Affairs | Theresa Greene |
| Vice Principal of Student Affairs | Rose Thompson |
| Staff | 30 |
| Faculty | 51 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrollment | 470 (2014) |
| • Grade 9 | 123 |
| • Grade 10 | 125 |
| • Grade 11 | 121 |
| • Grade 12 | 117 |
| Average class size | 16 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11:1 |
| Hours in school day | 6.5 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Slogan | "Be who you are and be that perfectly well" - St. Francis de Sales |
| Song | "Hail to you, dear Mount de Sales" |
| Athletics conference | IAAM |
| Mascot | Sailor |
| Team name | Sailors |
| Rival | Seton Keough (Closing June 2017) |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Average SAT scores | 1776 (2014) |
| Average ACT scores | 25.1 (2014) |
| Publication | The View from the Cupola |
| Newspaper | Anchor |
| Yearbook | Ionic Columns |
| Tuition | $13,600 (2015-2016) |
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| Location | 700 Academy Rd., Catonsville, Maryland |
| Area | 10.3 acres (4.2 ha) |
| Built | 1852 |
| Architect | Curley, James & Son; Baldwin,E.F. |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Italianate |
| NRHP Reference # | 86001187 |
| Added to NRHP | May 30, 1986 |
Mount de Sales Academy is an all-girls secondary school located in Catonsville in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland. The school is located near the city of Baltimore. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
The school is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and is partially staffed by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia.
Mount de Sales Academy was founded in 1852 by the Visitation Sisters as a boarding school for girls and boys, later teaching only girls it now serves as a college-preparatory school. It was the first institution in Baltimore County to offer education to women of all religious denominations.
Mount de Sales Academy was named one of the top 50 Catholic schools in the country by the Catholic High School Honor Roll since 2004 on the basis of academics, Catholic identity, and civic education [1]. It is the only school in the state of Maryland to be included in the list.
Mount de Sales is located on 12 acres (49,000 m2) of land, from which one can see the Inner Harbor and the Baltimore city skyline. The back yard of the school is home to a garden featuring a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The campus also includes athletic fields, a convent, and a gymnasium.
Most classes are still held in the original school building, begun in 1852 and expanded in the 1860s. The main building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, retains architectural traces of the cloistered sisters of the Visitation Order who founded the school. The chapel, located in the center of the main building, is the oldest place of worship still in use in Baltimore. The stained glass windows in the chapel, original to the building, were cast in the same place and manufacturing technique as the famous stained glass of the Cathedral of Chartres, France. Interestingly, the windows are located at the back of the building, as Catholics in the area were undergoing much persecution at the time of the building's planning, and its founders wished to avoid vandalism and protest. The building also includes the Music Hall, which has details such as trompe-l'œil painting, the Padre Pio library, which contains relics of that saint and a mosaic in his honor, computer labs, a spacious art studio, and the Ramona Carrigan Science Center.
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