Jump to content

Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

(Top) 1 History 2 Athletics 3 Campus 4 Notable alumnae 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

●مصرى Edit links ●Article ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Cite this page ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code ●Wikidata item Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version In other projects ●Wikimedia Commons Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart


Address
9101 Rockville Pike Bethesda , Maryland 20814 United States
Information
Type	Private
Motto	Hic et Nunc (Here and Now)
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1924
School district	Archdiocese of Washington Catholic Schools^[1]
Head of School	Catherine Ronan Karrels
Grades	Preschool–12
Gender	Girls
Enrollment	747 (2018)
Color(s)	Blue and gold
Song	Coeur de Jesus
Athletics	Independent School League
Accreditation	Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools^[2]
Newspaper	The Here & Now
Yearbook	Ridgeway
Tuition	$44,900 grades 9-12
Website	stoneridgeschool.org

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory schoolinBethesda, Maryland. Founded in 1923, of is part of the Network of Sacred Heart schools for girls. The school offers grades 1-12 and a co-educational early childhood program.

History[edit]

Stone Ridge was established in downtown Washington, DC at 1719 Massachusetts Avenue, NW in 1923. By the end of the Second World War, the school had outgrown the original building. In 1947, the Society of the Sacred Heart bought 25 acres and their estate, known as "Stone Ridge," in Bethesda, Maryland from Mr. and Mrs. George Hamilton. To this day, the original mansion of the Hamilton estate, a grand neo-Georgian edifice built in 1904, is known as "Hamilton House".^[3]

Athletics[edit]

Stone Ridge girls compete athletically in the Independent School League. In 2015, a turf field was added to the campus. It is lined for field hockey, soccer and lacrosse. It is really good at lacrosse winning multiple championships in their league.

Campus[edit]

It hosts the classes of the Washington Japanese Language School (ワシントン日本語学校 Washington Nihongo Gakkō),^[4]asupplementary school for Japanese children subsidized by the Japanese government.^[5]

Notable alumnae[edit]

Andrea Koppel (1981)^[6]
Cokie Roberts (1960)^[7]
Maria Shriver (1973)^[8]
Frederica von Stade (finished at Sacred Heart in Noroton, CT)^[9]
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (finished at The Putney School in Vermont)^[10]
Barbara Lynn-Follansbee (1985), former FCC attorney and current Vice President Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships at USTelecom^[11]
Katie Ledecky (2015)^[12]

References[edit]

^ "Find a School". Archdiocese of Washington Catholic Schools.

^ MSA-CIWA. "MSA-Committee on Institution-Wide Accreditation". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2009-07-31.

^ Walston, Mark. "The House on the Hill". Bethesda Magazine. No. May–June 2009.

^ "Home". Washington Japanese Language School. Retrieved 2022-02-06. 校舎ストーンリッジ校 Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart 9101 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 (校舎 refers to the classroom location)

^ Wank, David L. (1983-07-17). "Japanese school is like kanji from heaven". Dayton Daily News. Dayton, Ohio. Cox News Service. p. 5-B. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.

^ Stephanie Siegel; Peggy Vaughn (June 7, 2006). "Class acts for 2006 graduates". The Gazette. Maryland Community Newspapers. Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. On the 25th anniversary of her own graduation from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, CNN correspondent Andrea Koppel returns today to talk about finding joy both personally and professionally.

^ Conconi, Chuck. "Cokie Roberts Looks Back on a Teenage Photoshoot". Washingtonian Magazine. No. August 1998.

^ Keane, Katharine (April 20, 2015). "15 Celebrities Who Grew Up Here". Bethesda Magazine.

^ McLellan, Joseph (February 27, 1988). "Von Stade's Cinderella Story". The Washington Post.

^ Perlstein, Linda (June 12, 2003). "Townsend Addresses Girls School". The Washington Post.

^ "Linkedin - B Lynn Follansbee". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

^ Sheinin, Dave (February 4, 2015). "Katie Ledecky finishes high school career with Olympics, more world records in sight". The Washington Post.

History of the school at the official website
Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart Education

External links[edit]

Washington metropolitan area Catholic high schools

Archdiocese of Washington Catholic Schools: Academy of the Holy Cross; Archbishop Carroll High School; The Avalon School; Bishop McNamara High School; Brookewood School; Connelly School of the Holy Child; DeMatha Catholic High School; Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School; Elizabeth Seton High School; Georgetown Preparatory School; Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School (Georgetown Visitation Monastery); Gonzaga College High School; The Heights School; Our Lady of Good Counsel High School; St. Anselm's Abbey School (Saint Anselm's Abbey); St. John's College High School; St. Mary's Ryken High School; St. Vincent Pallotti High School; Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Diocese of Arlington: Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School; Bishop Ireton High School; John Paul the Great Catholic High School; Oakcrest School; Paul VI Catholic High School

National Catholic Educational Association + Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities

Athletic conferences, associations, & leagues

Washington Catholic Athletic Conference

Washington Catholic Athletic Conference

Interstate Athletic Conference

Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland

Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association

Potomac Valley Athletic Conference

Independent School League

List of parochial and private schools in the Washington metropolitan area

v t e Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington
Ordinaries	Archbishops Michael Joseph Curley Patrick O'Boyle William Wakefield Baum James Aloysius Hickey Theodore McCarrick Donald Wuerl Wilton Daniel Gregory Auxiliaries John Michael McNamara Patrick Joseph McCormick Philip Hannan William Joseph McDonald John Selby Spence Edward John Herrmann Thomas William Lyons Eugene Antonio Marino Thomas C. Kelly Álvaro Corrada del Río William G. Curlin Leonard Olivier William E. Lori Kevin Farrell Francisco González Valer, SF Martin Holley Barry C. Knestout Mario E. Dorsonville Roy Edward Campbell Michael William Fisher Juan Esposito-Garcia Evelio Menjivar-Ayala
Churches and parishes	Cathedral Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle Parish churches Sacred Heart Church, Bowie St. Ambrose Church, Cheverly St. Francis Xavier Church, Compton St. Mary Church, Newport St. Ignatius Church, Oxon Hill St. Ignatius Church, Port Tobacco St. Mary Church, Rockville St. Ignatius Church, St. Inigoes Holy Trinity Church, Washington Immaculate Conception Church, Washington St. Aloysius Church, Washington St. Anthony of Padua Church, Washington St. Augustine Church, Washington St. Patrick's Church, Washington St. Peter's Church, Washington St. Stephen Martyr Church, Washington Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Solomons St. John the Baptist, Silver Spring St. John the Evangelist, Silver Spring Our Lady, Queen of Poland and St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish Chapels and shrines Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Pope John Paul II Shrine Shrine of the Sacred Heart Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart
Catholic education	Higher education Catholic University of America Dominican House of Studies Georgetown University John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Trinity Washington University Washington Theological Union High schools Template:Washington Metro Area Catholic High Schools Academy of the Holy Cross Archbishop Carroll High School The Avalon School Bishop McNamara High School Brookewood School Connelly School of the Holy Child DeMatha Catholic High School Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School Elizabeth Seton High School Georgetown Preparatory School Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School Gonzaga College High School The Heights School Our Lady of Good Counsel High School St. Anselm's Abbey School St. John's College High School St. Mary's Ryken High School St. Vincent Pallotti High School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
Priests	Lorenzo Albacete Anthony Caffry William Matthews
Miscellany	Catholic Standard (newspaper) El Pregonero (newspaper) Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monastery Mount Olivet Cemetery Holy Rood Cemetery Georgetown University Jesuit Community Cemetery The James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue Saint Anselm's Abbey St. Clement's Island State Park
Catholicism portal United States portal

v t e Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington
Churches and parishes	List List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington Cathedral Cathedral of Saint Thomas More Parishes Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria St. Mary's Church, Fairfax Station St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, Fredericksburg Abbey Holy Cross Abbey
Catholic education	Higher education Christendom College Divine Mercy University Institute for the Psychological Sciences Marymount University High schools Template:Washington Metro Area Catholic High Schools Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School Bishop Ireton High School John Paul the Great Catholic High School Oakcrest School Paul VI Catholic High School
Ordinaries	Past Thomas Jerome Welsh John Richard Keating Paul Loverde Present Michael Francis Burbidge
Catholicism portal

Washington metropolitan area

Principal cities (and
city-like entities)

Maryland

Virginia

District of Columbia

Washington

Counties (and
county equivalents)

Maryland	Calvert Charles Frederick Montgomery Prince George's
Virginia	Arlington Alexandria, City of Clarke Culpeper Fairfax Fairfax, City of Falls Church, City of Fauquier Loudoun Prince William Manassas, City of Manassas Park, City of Rappahannock Spotsylvania Fredericksburg, City of Stafford Warren
District of Columbia	Washington, D.C. itself
Other outlying areas	Jefferson County, West Virginia

See also

The District of Columbia itself, and Virginia's incorporated cities, are county equivalents. Virginia's incorporated cities are listed under their surrounding county. The incorporated cities bordering more than one county (Alexandria, Falls Church and Fredericksburg) are listed under the county they were part of before incorporation as a city. Some unincorporated areas and census-designated places like Silver Spring and Bethesda in Maryland, Reston in Virginia, as well as the County of Arlington in Virginia are also treated as city-like entities (or principal cities) even though they have not been legally incorporated as such.

Bethesda, Maryland

This includes places within the Bethesda census-designated place.

Education

Primary & secondary
schools

Montgomery County Public Schools

Holton-Arms School
Landon School
Mater Dei School
Rochambeau French International School
Sidwell Friends School (primary school campus)
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
The Woods Academy
Washington Waldorf School

Other education

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Landmarks

Bethesda Station (Washington Metro)
National Institutes of Health campus
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Former National Naval Medical Center
Writer's Center

This list is incomplete.
Some places with "Bethesda, Maryland" postal addresses are in North Bethesda CDP (see template)

Montgomery County, Maryland schools

Montgomery County Public Schools

Zoned schools

Magnet/alternative schools

Thomas Edison High School of Technology

Independent schools

Secular private

Religious

Closed

Montrose Christian School

This list is incomplete.

Single-gender schools in the Washington, DC area

Private boys' schools

District of Columbia	Gonzaga College High School St. Anselm's Abbey School St. Albans School
Virginia	King Abdullah Academy (boys' secondary classes)
Maryland	DeMatha Catholic High School Georgetown Preparatory School The Avalon School The Heights School Landon School Mater Dei School
Became coeducational	Bishop McNamara High School (Maryland) Bishop Ireton High School (Virginia)

Private girls' schools

District of Columbia	Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School National Cathedral School
Virginia	King Abdullah Academy (girls' secondary classes) Madeira School Oakcrest School
Maryland	Academy of the Holy Cross Brookewood School Connelly School of the Holy Child Elizabeth Seton High School Holton-Arms School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
Closed	Immaculata Preparatory School La Reine High School (Maryland)

Single-gender schools in Maryland

Public girls' schools

Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women
Western High School (Baltimore)

Closed

Private boys' schools

DC area	DeMatha Catholic High School Georgetown Preparatory School Mater Dei School The Avalon School The Heights School Landon School
Baltimore area	Archbishop Curley High School Boys' Latin School of Maryland Calvert Hall College High School Gilman School Loyola Blakefield Mount Saint Joseph High School
Closed	Cardinal Gibbons School (Baltimore)
Became coeducational	Bishop McNamara High School