Known for academic excellence with a powerful combination of consistent religious instruction, teachers that are strong role models, a high-quality education, administrators who know you by name, the Lourdes difference is a community feels like family.
When you look back on your kids’ childhoods, what defining moments do you hope to see? Moments defined by the world or ones that demonstrate the strong values of courage, hope, respect, integrity, service, and thankfulness?
WHAT MAKES AN OUTSTANDING SCHOOL?
Lourdes maximizes student potential with dynamic Junior Kindergarten to 8th grade classrooms that appeal to different learning styles and go above and beyond the regular curriculum — embracing each student’s talents, celebrating accomplishments, and connecting their strengths with a high-quality education — supported by superior teachers, a rigorous curriculum, and engaging resources.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a closely-knit school with vast opportunities that facilitate relationship building, communication skills, accountability, and responsibility.
Outside the limitations of Virginia’s Standards of Learning, teachers have the flexibility to execute creative lessons and present material in ways which students find interesting, engaging and fun. Our curriculum is marked by current content and fresh approaches to methodology.
Lourdes emphasizes principles rather than fact, on learning through problem solving rather than by precept, and we never mistake a syllabus for an education. We strive to offer a program which makes use of many sources of reading material, a wide variety of audio-visual and technology tools and a multi-text approach to the content areas.
After eighth grade graduation, all of our students move on to graduate from high school and thrive in life. Our students consistently outperform on national tests (MAPS and ACRE) and are more than prepared to continue to be successful in their educational career.
We believe in:
- diversity of all types and in supporting each other
- ensuring equitable access for every student that desires a Lourdes education
- investing in amazing educators that connect deeply with their students on both a professional and personal level
- an education that helps each child thrive, both now and in the future
- empowering kids to go to serve others in the margins and conduct positive change in their own community
- honestly sharing our inner selves and openly hearing the truths that others hold in their hearts.
Come visit to see how we lead students to live as a disciple of Christ by nurturing and preparing them for success.
FAST FACTS
The
Basics
- 351 Students JK-8th grade
- 108 New Students in 2021
- 283 Families
- 14 Acre Campus
- 1963 Year Opened
Supporting the Whole Child
- 6 Elementary Resource Classes
- 9 Enrichment Opportunities
- 18 Field Trips in 2021-22
- 25 Inclusive Sports Teams
- 101 Aftercare Enrollment
Highly-qualified Faculty and Staff
- 51 Total Faculty and Staff
- 243 Combined Years of Experience at Lourdes
- 37% Faculty with Advanced Degrees
- 3 Student Support Teachers
- 5 Lourdes Graduates on Staff
- 10 Current or Former Lourdes Parents on Staff
Some of Our Strengths
- 1,530 Alumni
- 9,218 Items in our Library
- 45 Different Heritages Represented
- 35 Furthest Student Home (miles)
- 1:1 Student Device Ratio
- 18 Annual Community Events
Class
Sizes
- 13:1 Student:Teacher Ratio
- 19 Homerooms
- 25 Maximum Class Size
Service and
Religion
- 3 Dedicated Priests
- 47 Churches Represented
- 3,500 Annual Parent Service Hours
- 2,350 Annual Student Service Hours
- 39 % Families of Other Faiths
Dynamic Middle School
- 6 High School Credit Courses
- 98 % of Students Accepted to Competitive Programs
- 21 Elective Options
Discipleship
Traits
- 6 Unique Houses
- 1 Weekly Student Mass
- Consistently focusing on living our faith by showing others courage, hope, respect, integrity, service, and thankfulness
2023-24 State of our School
TEstimonials for our school
The Rios family
We have been part of the OLL family since 2010, and have loved every minute of it. We discovered the school by chance, or maybe God’s intervention, when on a cold winter Sunday Father Duarte mentioned that the school was having an open house right after that mass. Since we had no other plans for the day we stopped by, even though private school was not something we were considering at that time. We were under the impression that all private schools have an exclusive feel and very limited diversity, which does not reflect the real world and isn’t an environment we wanted out kids to grow up in. However, we could not have been more wrong. We were caught off guard by how welcoming, multicultural and diverse the school was.
