Villa Sainte-Marcelline

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Villa Sainte-Marcelline is a private French school located in Westmount, Quebec. It is an all-girl school from kindergarten up to grade 11. There is also a cegep, named CIM, for girls and boys.

[edit] History

In September 1959, the Marcelline nuns opened the doors of the school to 66 students in the "Aimé Geoffrion" mansion on Upper Belmont Avenue in Westmount. Six years later, the school bought the next door house but it would only be in 1988 that the school would experience its first big constructions. These works made it possible to join both houses to create a bigger school. The students now had a new gym, auditorium and science labs. With the expansion of the school, the school accepted more girls. It became a first choice school for rich french families and also for english families trying to get their kids to be bilingual.

Nowadays the school is known to be the only french private school in Westmount and the one located at the very top of the Hill. Often, VSM is used to replace the full name of the school.