Our Lady of the Visitation School


Our Lady of the Visitation School is a large private grade-school in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school won the 2007 Blue Ribbon Schools Competition. The school's name is often shortened to "Visi".

Academics

The school has grades 1-8 and there are four homerooms for each grade. Visitation has many extra classes as well. The school has one library, two gyms, two art rooms, two music rooms, and one large computer lab.

Blue-Ribbon Schools

Visitation won the 2007 Blue Ribbon Schools Competition. The Blue Ribbon award is considered to be the highest honor that an American school can achieve. Any school in the U.S. can enter.

Extracurricular

Athletics

Visitation's mascot is Orloff the Mighty Viking and teams are normally nicknamed the "Visi Vikings". Visitation offers many sports for all grades. In-school activities include "Olympic Day" and a volleyball game. "Olympic Day" is a day-long event in which students from each grade compete in different activities. The volleyball game is another day-long event in which the 8th grade plays against the teachers in a volleyball game. Each homeroom fields four teams and games take place throughout the day. Grades 1-7 watch the games throughout the day as well. One of the many rivals of Visi include the Our Lady of Victory Vipers.
The Visitation Class of 2010 football team won five straight football titles, while not losing a game in the years on 6,7,8 grade.
Brian Louis along with Tyler Day are the only golfers in Visitation history to record a hole-in-one.

Community Service

From first grade on many times of the year there are opportunities for community service. Students raise money for charities, give gifts to those less fortunate, and many other things. The older the students get the more responsibility they have. Eighth graders have a group known as E.G.O. which controls a lot of which community service activity the school does and when certain fundraisers are. E.G.O. however doesn't control certain activities because certain activities or fundraisers are annual and are not changed. Also, E.G.O. does not head every project either. For example, the first grade heads a fundraiser to raise money for Guatemala schools. A.C.T.S. is a program that eighth graders can join which travels around the community doing acts of community service by visiting nursing homes, tutoring under privileged kids, and many other things.

A Green School

Visitation always has worked to be energy efficient. Whether using fluorescent light bubbles or reusable materials in the cafeteria. Most recently, as part of a school project, a portion of the school's roof became a garden. Photos can be seen .

Families

"Families" is an in-school program, started in 2005, that pairs members of each grade together for one year and then the families are reorganized. The eighth grader in each family acts as the leader. "Families" participate in activities throughout the year such as making valentines for the elderly, creating things to hang up around the school, and simply have fun. Most recently "Families" created a human American Flag and sent to the U.S. troops overseas along with letters from each "family". "Families" are there to cut down on school bullying and troubles and allow for kids who normally feel left out at school find a home away from home.

60th Anniversary

Visitation celebrated its parish's 60th Anniversary in 2006. The parish started in 1946 as a small church. The church, originally, was a converted army barracks. When the parish began growing rapidly a new church was planned. That church is still in use today but has since been expanded.

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