Set on 64 wooded acres in Towson, Maryland, and ranked as Niche.com’s #1 Girls Catholic School in the Baltimore area, Notre Dame Prep’s campus offers a captivating, inspiring, and safe space to prepare your daughter for college and beyond. Educating and empowering girls in grades 6–12, NDP offers more than 190 college preparatory courses, including 26 Advanced Placement courses and dual-enrollment college courses.
NDP offers a personalized, liberal arts-based education with signature programs in the middle and high schools. Programs include arts, STEAM, and Humanities, so girls can hone their interests. The Women In… (WIN) program provides career exploration in science, medicine, business, and law. The curriculum is complemented by deep-rooted traditions, more than 30 student clubs and extracurricular activities, and championship-level teams across 15 interscholastic sports programs.
The Batza & Simon Academic Services and Enrichment Center offers academic support when, where, and how students need it. With its medical suite, class[1]rooms for the Bette Ellis O’Conor Humanities Program, fabrication lab, art studios, cyber computer science center, design studies, and more, the Jane Kroh Satterfield Innovation Wing provides 23,500 square feet of STEAM-based education and enhances opportunities to cultivate curiosity and hone career interests.
Featuring new seating, state-of-the-art lighting, and a 15k lumen Epson laser projector that projects animated scenery, NDP’s 1,000- seat Auditorium offers a performance space where just about anything is possible! Additionally, the Performing Arts Wing provides dedicated space for instruction in dance, orchestra, band, jazz band, piano, chamber choir, and more. NDP’s athletic facilities boast an impressive weight room, a fully lighted and turfed Yeardly Love Field, and one of the few indoor pools in the area.
A central part of campus, Cafe NDP features all your favorite foods and is a place to study, host club meetings, or learn from guest speakers. All with an ever-present reminder to “act justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with God.” The Mother Philemon Doyle Library houses an extensive collection of more than 30,000 items, a reading room with a special women’s collection, extensive database resources, and media equipment.
Having the area’s oldest formalized service program, NDP exposes students to the importance of social service in the community and the directives and nuances of Catholic Social Teaching. The Catholic faith is the cornerstone of an NDP education. Students of all faiths are invited to grow their spirituality together as well as pursue academic excellence and the practice of justice.
Learn more at www.notredameprep.com.
This article is part of the 2024-2025 Guide to Baltimore Independent Schools.
