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OAKCREST SCHOOL 850 Balls Hill Road McLean, VA 22101 703 790-5450
www.oakcrest.org Girls’ School for Sixth through Twelfth Grades
O
akcrest educates the whole person. Inspired by the teachings of the
Catholic Church and the spirituality of Opus Dei, they weave together a rich liberal arts curriculum, character
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL 8601 Wolftrap Road Vienna, VA 22182 703 938-3600
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL 3819 Gallows Rd Annandale, VA 22003 703 256-3620
www.westminster school.com
www.olgcschool.org
Pre-K through Eighth Grade
Kindergarten through Eighth Grade
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T
he School provides a Catholic education instilled with the
estminster’s academic program is based on the belief that children
between the ages of five and fourteen
spirituality of St. Francis de Sales. It is
are naturally dominated by curiosity and
development, one-on-one advising and
intended to “make your child’s faith a
enthusiasm for life, and want nothing so
service to create a vibrant environment
living, conscious, and active one through
much as to understand the world around
that graduates confident young women
the light of instruction.” The integration
them, discover how they fit into it, and
who will make a difference in all they
of religious truth and values with life is
show what they can do. To satisfy and
choose to do.
the focal point of the curriculum. OLGC
stimulate this appetite for learning and
School strives for academic excellence,
accomplishment, Westminster presents
encourages appreciation of the fine arts,
a diverse, challenging curriculum in a
fosters self-respect and respect for all life,
purposeful classroom environment which
and attempts to develop responsibility for
emphasizes thorough mastery of subject,
the total community.
high standards of achievement, good study
Students at all-girls schools report having higher aspirations and greater motivation, being challenged to achieve more, engaging more actively in the learning process, feeling more comfortable being themselves and expressing their ideas. showing greater gains on core academic and life skills,
Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic School has a long standing reputation
habits, and personal responsibility. Westminster provides to students in
for excellence in academics and a caring,
preschool through grade eight a well-
family environment which facilitates
rounded education steeped in the classics,
learning and the child’s spiritual, social,
whose fundamental goals are a disciplined
emotional and physical growth. Students
and well-informed mind, strength
and know themselves, to be unafraid of
who successfully complete the course
of character, dedication to learning,
effecting positive change wherever they
of studies at Our Lady of Good Counsel
generosity of spirit, creativity, and joy
go. Each girl is encouraged to blossom,
School are well prepared for academic
in the possibilities of life. Accelerated
given individualized attention that feeds
success in high school and beyond. Our
curriculum includes the core subjects, as
their mind and soul. Girls develop a
graduates typically choose to attend Bishop
well as Junior Great Books, French, Latin,
strong foundation to grow in wisdom and
O’Connell and Paul VI High Schools,
Art, Music, Drama, and daily PE.
virtue, ready to face the world.
Gonzaga College High School, Georgetown
being and feeling more supported in their endeavors. Oakcrest School helps girls to discover
Visitation, Georgetown Prep, and other private and public schools.
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