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Villa Academy is a Catholic independent PreK-8th grade school located in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, Washington on a tract of land near Lake Washington. The school has a preschool, Lower School and Middle School and was founded by America's first Catholic saint, Mother Cabrini who was canonized as St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in 1946. The campus includes orchards, gardens, three age appropriate playgrounds, an athletic field and a tennis court. The building also has a dedicated art studio and music space, science laboratories, a performance theater, full size gymnasium, Lower School Computer lab and historic chapel. In 2007-2008, Villa enrolled approximately 400 students, approximately half of whom are Catholic. ==History== Villa Academy traces its roots to 1903, when the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart founded their first orphanage and school in Seattle on Beacon Hill. In 1914, Mother Cabrini (now St. Frances Xavier Cabrini) moved her mission to the Laurelhurst campus in Seattle, its current location. Villa’s two main buildings were designed by famed Seattle architect, John Graham, Sr. in 1924 and a gymnasium was added in the late 1950s. The school originally included an orphanage run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart until 1950. In 1951, the orphanage closed and the Sisters focused their efforts on an elementary school known as Sacred Heart Villa. In 1977, it became an independent private school and Seattle’s only Catholic independent preschool through eighth-grade school.〔 Villa Academy’s Chapel was constructed in the mid-1920s and underwent extensive restoration in 1991. Today, the chapel is rented for weddings and used by students. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Villa Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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