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Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School

:''This article is about an establishment in Washington, D.C., formerly known as the Convent and Academy of the Visitation. For the establishment with an identical historic name located in Alabama, see Visitation Monastery.''
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School was founded in Washington, DC in 1799 as the Georgetown Academy for Young Ladies. It was also formally referred to as the Convent and Academy of the Visitation. Since 1799, the school has continued for over 200 years as a college preparatory school for women. Visitation is the second oldest, continually run all-girls school in the United States. It is a member of the Independent School League. Modern school literature states that their curriculum is rooted in the virtues of faith, vision, and purpose. Visitation currently enrolls approximately 450 students in the ninth through twelfth grades. Visitation is a Catholic school originally guided by the Visitation Sisters, but the school community includes many students and faculty who are not of the Roman Catholic faith.
==History==
The Visitation Convent, Georgetown was founded at the request of Archbishop Leonard Neale, president of Georgetown College, with Teresa Lalor.〔(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Visitation Convent (Georgetown) )〕 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 convent and school at Georgetown Visitation have been active participants in the history of Washington, DC. When it was still illegal to teach a slave to read, the Sisters of the Visitation opened a Saturday school where they would offer a free education to any young girl who wished to learn. Both free blacks and slaves learned at the Visitation convent. 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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