Mount de Sales Academy (Catonsville, Maryland)

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Mount de Sales Academy (Catonsville, Maryland)
700 Academy Road

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Coordinates 39°17′9″N76°43′17″W / 39.28583°N 76.72139°W / 39.28583; -76.72139
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Type Private
Denomination Roman Catholic
(Dominicans)
Patron saint(s)Saint Francis de Sales
Established1852;171 years ago (1852)
Founder Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary
Sister school Mount Saint Joseph High School
Oversight Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
NCES School ID 00578546 [1]
PrincipalSister Mary Raymond Thye, O.P.
Staff30
Faculty50
Grades 912
GenderGirls
Enrollment460 (2023)
Average class size16
Student to teacher ratio10:1
Hours in school day6.5
Campus size10 acres
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Blue and White   
Song"Hail to you, dear Mount de Sales"
Athletics conference IAAM
MascotSailor
Team nameSailors
Rival Seton Keough (Closed 2017)
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools [2]
PublicationThe View from the Cupola
NewspaperAnchor
YearbookIonic Columns
Tuition$17,675 (2023-2024)
AlumniAudrey Powers
Website www.mountdesales.org
Mount de Sales Academy
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Location700 Academy Rd., Catonsville, Maryland
Area10.3 acres (4.2 ha)
Built1852
ArchitectCurley, James & Son; Baldwin, E.F.
Architectural styleClassical Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No. 86001187 [3]
Added to NRHPMay 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 and within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

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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. Now 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. [4]

Reputation

Mount de Sales Academy has been named one of the top 50 Catholic schools in the country by the Catholic High School Honor Roll each year since 2004 on the basis of academics, Catholic identity, and civic education . It is the only school in the state of Maryland to be included in the list.

Campus and Buildings

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 the Center for Performing Arts and Student life (opened in 2021), 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. [4] 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. 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 and is where graduation is held annually, the Padre Pio library, which contains relics of that saint and a mosaic in his honor, computer labs, a spacious art studio, the Ramona Carrigan Science Center, research lab, and newly added STEM and robotics rooms.

The Regina Keenan Knott Alumnae Hall was formerly an infirmary for the school's boarding students. At one time it was connected to the main building by a walkway which has since been demolished. The building's front is the opposite of the main building so that visitors would not see any of the sick or otherwise ailing girls. The building now houses the school's development and alumnae relations groups.

The Constance and Samuel Pistorio Sports Complex was dedicated in 1999. Its design was modeled after the architecture of the campus' historic buildings. The facility is located across from the main building, on a piazza featuring gardens and a bronze statue of Saint Joseph the Worker.

The Center for Performing Arts and Student Life, a 24,000-square foot building that opened in 2021, features music and dance classrooms, practice rooms for student performers, fully equipped scene shop and storage space for technical theatre students, 400-seat fixed lower-level orchestral section, 200-moveable seat upper-level multi-use space, and control room for audio, lighting, and visual equipment.

Brother School

The nearby all-boys Mount Saint Joseph High School is the Brother School of Mount de Sales Academy. The two schools share their long history with each other. In the present day:

Notable alumnae

See also

References and notes

  1. "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Mount De Sales Academy". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved Dec 4, 2016.
  2. MSA-CSS. "MSA-Commission on Secondary Schools". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  4. 1 2 Peter E. Kurtze; John McGrain & Rev. Michael Roach (September 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount de Sales Academy" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  5. "Miss Florida USA | Miss Florida Teen USA | Pageant". miss-florida. Retrieved 2019-03-23.

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