Our Lady of the Visitation School

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Our Lady of the Visitation School is a large private grade-school in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school has been noted for its academic achievements and is considered one of the best grade schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The school won the 2007 Blue Ribbon Schools Competition. The school's name is often shortened to "Visi".AcademicsThe 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 SchoolsVisitation 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.ExtracurricularAthleticsVisitation'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 (of any grade) in a volleyball game. Each homeroom (four homerooms) fields four teams and games take place throughout the day. Grades 1-7 watch the games (two grades for every four games) throughout the day as well. One of the many rivals of Visi include the Our Lady of Victory (Cincinnati) Vipers. FootballThe Visitation Class of 2010 football team won five straight football titles, while not losing a game in the years on 6,7,8 grade. GolfBrian Louis along with Tyler Day are the only golfers in Visitation history to record a hole-in-one.