Celebrate 100 Years
of Cabrinian
"Education of the Heart"
Villa Academy invites you to join in the celebration of our one hundred years in Laurelhurst during the 2024-2025 academic year.
We welcome you to read on to learn more about our school’s history and excitement about the future.
Celebrate the Centennial with Villa
Generosity Fuels Our mission
As we celebrate our Centennial, we reflect on and honor the past and look ahead to a bright future of educational excellence at Villa. Philanthropic support is the cornerstone of our success, enabling us to provide an exceptional educational experience for our students and robust support for our faculty and staff.
The Fund for Villa is integral to sustaining our daily operations and advancing our long-term strategic initiatives. It ensures that we continue to offer a differentiated student experience and foster a nurturing environment for growth and learning.
Your generous contributions fuel our mission and help us provide the best opportunities for our students every year.
As we honor a century of achievement, your support will be vital in shaping the future of our institution.
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HONORING A RICH HISTORY OF SERVICE AND COMMUNITY
Villa Academy’s initial founder, St. Frances Cabrini, promoted the education of the whole child–mind, body, and spirit–at a watershed moment in education history. Further popularized by John Dewey and other transformative thinkers, the whole child educational movement of the turn of the 20th century encouraged the embrace of the individual learner through honoring their strengths, challenges, and needs.
The Cabrinian educational tradition unites expansive intellectual growth with spiritual development, wherein students are seen, honored, and valued as individuals on a path of deepening moral development. At Villa, students grow as scholars while simultaneously growing in character.
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Creating A Bright Future for All
In 2018, a group of Villa Academy trustees commenced the work of examining the school’s mission statement in an effort to create a mission that accurately reflected the identity and values of the school. In the fall of 2022, Villa’s new mission statement was shared with our community:
Villa Academy is an inclusive independent school community dedicated to developing the whole child in the Cabrinian tradition of “education of the heart.” Through dynamic, inquiry-based learning, Villa students become active agents of their own intellectual growth in preparation for lives of service and purpose.
VILLA VOICES
“I love the campus, the people, and the teachers and the chocolate milk.”
“It’s really welcoming and I feel like I belong here.”-
“I learned that science is really fun.”
