Villa Academy is a Catholic independent 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.
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