Background
Villa Duchesne was established in 1929 by Reverend Mother Mary Reid of the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1968, a local sister school (now known as The Academy of the Sacred Heart) was closing its doors as an all-female high school, and switching to a Pre-K-8 co-ed school. While Villa is generally considered to be an elite, upper-class school, there have been significant efforts to broaden the financial and racial spectrum of the school in recent years.
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