About Ursuline
Welcome To Ursuline
For 80 years, Ursuline Academy has been educating young women, always with an eye to the whole person. We provide students the opportunity to stretch, explore, and discover their many talents as they begin to understand their responsibility to the greater world.
Our approach to education finds its roots in the teachings of St. Angela Merici, who founded the Ursuline order in 1540. Nearly 500 years later, our students are called to the essential and time-treasured values of respect, compassion, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to service. We celebrate the uniqueness of each student while asking them to unite in a community bound by the motto of Serviam, “I will serve.
If you are a prospective family considering Ursuline, I invite you to explore our website to fully understand what makes us unique. Better still, come visit our school. Engage with our faculty and staff, talk with our students, and walk our campus to sense for yourself a thriving community of young women.
And if you are already a member of our community, thank you! Whether a student, alumna, member of faculty or staff, parent, or volunteer, you make our community strong.
Blessings and peace,
Kate Levesque ’77
Head of School
"For 80 years, Ursuline Academy has encouraged young women to push past their expectations of themselves. Students are free to explore their identity, be bold and kind, and find joy in a supportive, encouraging environment."
For 500 years, the women of the Ursuline Order have eagerly embraced innovation. From the moment St. Angela Merici encouraged her followers to “risk new things,” the Ursulines have never hesitated to advance boldly. As a result, the Ursulines were the first women to establish a Catholic school in North America. Ursuline schools gave rise to the first female pharmacist in the United States and the first woman to contribute a book of literary merit and also provided the first classes for female African-American slaves, free women of color, and Native Americans.
An Ursuline School
In a tradition combining the best of all-girls and Catholic schools, our graduates emerge as women of integrity who engage in their communities with purpose and presence.
The values of an Ursuline education were established centuries ago when Saint Angela Merici, a forward-thinking Italian religious educator and foundress of the Order of St. Ursula, dedicated her life to forming a company of young women engaged in bettering their communities. Hundreds of years later, we still believe in a world in which every young woman is empowered and supported to find her voice and be the best she can be for herself and through contributions to the world around her.
At A Glance
Ursuline Academy is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school for young women in grades 7 - 12.
Affiliation
Ursuline Academy operates under the sponsorship of the international network of Ursuline Sisters. Ursuline Academy is a member of Ursuline Education Network (UEN), a collaborative effort of Ursuline congregations to foster education based on Gospel values and promotes the preservation and development of the Ursuline charism and mission. The mission and values of our community are truly universal and we welcome students of all faiths.
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