Fontbonne Hall welcomes Visitation Academy students

September 5, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BAY RIDGE — Students who attended Visitation Academy before it closed earlier this year now have a new home, thanks to Fontbonne Hall Academy, also in Bay Ridge. During the previous academic year, the Sisters of Visitation decided to end their sponsorship of their school as part of the Monastery’s impending closure. Acting quickly to fill the void, Fontbonne Hall Academy created a middle school, “The Visitation Program,” which officially opened with a ribbon-cutting on the first day of school this week, Tuesday, Sept. 3.

The Visitation Program expanded Fontbonne Hall, which was an all-girls high school into a single-gender middle school as well, for girls entering grades six through eight. Teachers from Visitation have also joined the Fontbonne Hall community. According to Fontbonne Hall Academy’s website, Visitation’s students were “welcomed into the Fontbonne family in 2024, we began a dynamic chapter, settling in our new, interconnected classrooms. Each room is tailored for middle school learning and boasts the most current technology. Student desks are configurable to encourage instant collaboration or quiet study. The spirited multi-level student community offers varied social, team-building and service opportunities.”

Guest speakers at the ribbon-cutting also reflected the Visitation and Fontbonne communities’ new chapter together: they were Mother Susan Marie Kazprzak, VHM Superior of the Brooklyn Visitation Monastery and Sister Tesa Fitzgerald, President of Sisters of St. Joseph.

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