Notre Dame Preparatory School (Towson, Maryland)
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| Address | |
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815 Hampton Lane Towson, Maryland, (Baltimore County) 21286 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°24′53″N 76°34′45″W / 39.41472°N 76.57917°WCoordinates: 39°24′53″N 76°34′45″W / 39.41472°N 76.57917°W |
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| Type | Private, All-Girls |
| Motto | Veritatem Prosequimur (We Pursue Truth) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1873 |
| Headmistress | Sister Patricia McCarron, SSND |
| Grades | 6–12 |
| Enrollment | 760 (2013) |
| Campus size | 60 acres (0.24 km2) |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Slogan | Blue be loyal White be true |
| Team name | Blazers |
| Rival | Maryvale Preparatory School |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Newspaper | The Gateway |
| Yearbook | Finis |
| Tuition | $19,400 for 2017-18 |
| Website | www.notredameprep.com |
Notre Dame Preparatory School is a private, Roman Catholic, independent school in Towson, Maryland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. Notre Dame Preparatory School is one of Baltimore's oldest Catholic, college preparatory schools for girls. Founded in 1873 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a teaching order from Germany, Notre Dame Prep is located in Towson, Maryland, north of Baltimore City.
Notre Dame Preparatory School (NDP) was founded on September 21, 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland on Charles Street by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, under the name Notre Dame of Maryland Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies. There were 63 pupils. The school was founded due to overcrowding at the SSND's first school in Baltimore, Institute of Notre Dame. Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, presided over the first commencement as his niece, Bessie Sharp, was a student at the school in 1876. Notre Dame's preparatory school existed 20 years before the college. In response to the high school graduates' requests in the early 1880s, the School Sisters of Notre Dame expanded Notre Dame of Maryland's curriculum with two years of post-secondary education. This led to the charter of the college on April 2, 1896. Although the school has always been for girls, in the early 1900s, boys were admitted. The sisters began to admit them, it is believed, at the urging of Cardinal James Gibbons for the convenience of some Baltimore families. In more than one school catalogue, the sisters assigned girls' names to the boys. In another, they penciled in "B" above each boy's name. By the late 1920s, however, the school was once again all-female. In an attempt to distinguish the prep school from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University) and to meet the growing demand for classroom space, the school moved in 1960 to the current Hampton Lame campus in Towson, Maryland.
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