Villa Academy is a coeducational PreK-8 independent school on a 31-acre campus in Seattle's Laurelhurst neighborhood. The lineage traces to the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (founded by St. Frances Xavier Cabrini), which acquired the property in 1913-14 and operated Sacred Heart Villa until 1977, when the school transitioned to a secular Board of Trustees and was renamed Villa Academy. The school describes itself as Cabrinian-tradition rather than diocesan, and admissions are open to families of all faiths.
In the Seattle private K-8 landscape, Villa is most often grouped with secular and lightly-affiliated independents — St. Joseph School (Capitol Hill Jesuit), Bertschi School (Capitol Hill K-5), Epiphany School (Madrona PK-5), and Spruce Street School (downtown K-5) — rather than with strictly parochial K-8s. The 31-acre campus is unusually large for Seattle (orchards, gardens, multiple specialist studios, a 1920s chapel restored in 1991), and the Laurelhurst location sits in a part of north Seattle not well served by other independents.
Graduates feed into the Seattle elite secular high schools (Lakeside, Bush, UPrep, SAAS) and Catholic options (Seattle Prep, Holy Names, Bishop Blanchet) at fairly even rates. A 2015-2017 capital campaign added STEAM facilities and an athletic field; the 2024-25 academic year marked the school's centennial in Laurelhurst.
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