MISSION Visitaon School provides an excellent educaon within a Catholic environment permeated by Salesian Spirituality. SCHOOL Visitaon’s Upper School (9-12) currently enrolls 334 students. Students come from the greater Twin Cies area and are of various reli- gions, ethnicies and socio-economic backgrounds. The class of 2019 has 77 members, all of whom plan to aend a four -year college or university. Our school was founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1873 by the Visitaon Sisters of Holy Mary, who traveled up the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri to open a school for girls in the growing State of Minnesota. Now located in the St. Paul suburb of, Mendota Heights, our school traces its roots to the Original American Visitaon School, which opened in 1799 in Georgetown, and the Visitaon Sisters’ first monastery established in Annecy, France, in 1610. Today we occupy a beauful, 65-acre, suburban campus that serves students in preschool through grade 12. Visitaon has a co-ed Montessori preschool through grade 5. Our all -girls Middle and Upper Schools offer young women a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, renowned fine arts offerings, celebrated athlec programs and a naonally recognized robocs program. VISITATION HONORS and AWARDS In 2018, Visitaon’s robocs team competed at the FIRST Robocs World Championships, winning the presgious Chairman ’s Award at the regional compeon to earn their spot. The team also received the Judges Award at the Duluth compeon. Visitaon’s theater company earned 34 Spotlight Awards during their 2017 season from the presgious Hennepin Theater Spotlight Educaon program, including outstanding achievement in musical theater, outstanding overall producon and outstanding overall performance. In 2017-2018, student-athletes made state appearances in swimming & diving, cross country, hockey, track & field, soccer and golf. The swim/dive team won their fiſth consecuve MN Class A state championship. Golf, hockey and soccer all had top -5 finishes in state compeon. The Visitaon mock trial team qualified for the state tournament in 2018. Visitaon’s yearbook program was named a Jostens 2017 Naonal Yearbook Program of Excellence. Seven students were honored for 13 works of art or wring at the 2018 Minnesota Scholasc Art Compeon. Three students ad- vanced to the Naonal Scholasc Art Compeon where one was awarded the Silver Medal. 2018 | 2019 School Profile 2455 Visitaon Drive Mendota Heights, MN 55120 Fax: 651-454-7144 www.visitaon.net CEEB CODE: 242240 Rene Gavic Head of School Dr. Anna Barter Director of Upper School Sarah Paerson Dean of College Counseling [email protected] | 651.683.1791 Brian Burgemeister Dean of College Counseling [email protected] | 651.683.1716 Andrea Hofland District Counselor/Registrar ahofl[email protected] | 651.683.1714 Non Scholae, Sed Vitae: Not for School, but for Life
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MISSION
Visitation School provides an excellent education within a Catholic environment permeated by Salesian Spirituality.
SCHOOL Visitation’s Upper School (9-12) currently enrolls 334 students. Students come from the greater Twin Cities area and are of various reli-gions, ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. The class of 2019 has 77 members, all of whom plan to attend a four-year college or university. Our school was founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1873 by the Visitation Sisters of Holy Mary, who traveled up the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri to open a school for girls in the growing State of Minnesota. Now located in the St. Paul suburb of, Mendota Heights, our school traces its roots to the Original American Visitation School, which opened in 1799 in Georgetown, and the Visitation Sisters’ first monastery established in Annecy, France, in 1610. Today we occupy a beautiful, 65-acre, suburban campus that serves students in preschool through grade 12. Visitation has a co-ed Montessori preschool through grade 5. Our all-girls Middle and Upper Schools offer young women a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, renowned fine arts offerings, celebrated athletic programs and a nationally recognized robotics program.
VISITATION HONORS and AWARDS
In 2018, Visitation’s robotics team competed at the FIRST Robotics World Championships, winning the prestigious Chairman’s Award
at the regional competition to earn their spot. The team also received the Judges Award at the Duluth competition.
Visitation’s theater company earned 34 Spotlight Awards during their 2017 season from the prestigious Hennepin Theater Spotlight
Education program, including outstanding achievement in musical theater, outstanding overall production and outstanding overall
performance.
In 2017-2018, student-athletes made state appearances in swimming & diving, cross country, hockey, track & field, soccer and golf.
The swim/dive team won their fifth consecutive MN Class A state championship. Golf, hockey and soccer all had top-5 finishes in
state competition.
The Visitation mock trial team qualified for the state tournament in 2018.
Visitation’s yearbook program was named a Jostens 2017 National Yearbook Program of Excellence.
Seven students were honored for 13 works of art or writing at the 2018 Minnesota Scholastic Art Competition. Three students ad-
vanced to the National Scholastic Art Competition where one was awarded the Silver Medal.
Honors and AP Level classes are noted as such on transcript.
**Courses on transcript marked “@ STA” indi-cates classes taken at Saint Thomas Academy, a neighboring college preparatory military academy for boys.
Advanced Placement Visitation offers 12 Advanced Placement courses. Admission to AP courses is competitive and requires department permission. Students may take only 3 AP courses per year unless granted special exception to take 4. In 2017-2018, 147 students were enrolled in AP courses; stu-dents took 276 exams and 70 percent of the scores were 3, 4 or 5.
Community Service Given Visitation’s commitment to volunteerism, students devote a minimum of 34 hours to community service and also complete a two-week senior service project.
Accreditation Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS)
Organizational Memberships NAIS, ACCIS, NACAC, MACAC, MAIS, College Board and Nation-al Coalition of Girls’ Schools
Reporting Disciplinary Action Visitation School does not volunteer information to colleges about disciplinary actions best handled within the walls of our school. We will report egregious violations of our student code of conduct or of any threat to the safety of the community.
COURSE OFFERINGS
Letter % Range Regular Honors AP
A 93-100 4 4.4 4.8
A- 90-92 3.7 4.1 4.4
B+ 87-89 3.3 3.6 4
B 83-86 3 3.3 3.6
B- 80-82 2.7 3 3.2
C+ 77-79 2.3 2.5 2.8
C 73-76 2 2.2 2.4
C- 70-72 1.7 1.9 2
D+ 67-69 1.3 1.4 1.6
D 64-66 1 1.1 1.2
D- 60-63 0.7 0.8 0.8
F 0-59 0 0 0
I 0 0 0 0
P 0 0 0 0
Visitation School Grading Scale
Grade Point Distribution: Class of 2019 - Six Semesters Because of the small size and strong performances of our grad-uating students, we do not provide class rank beyond the quar-tile measure. Even students in our fourth quartile perform well at competitive colleges.