About Our School - Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School

For over 70 years, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School has been providing the students of Raleigh and the surrounding areas an affordable, high quality, traditional Catholic education. Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1954, the school has also seen religious and educational leadership from the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM).

Welcome From Our Principal

Welcome to the Our Lady of Lourdes School website. On these pages, I hope you will begin to appreciate what makes our school an excellent educational choice for your family.

Since 1954, Our Lady of Lourdes School has provided a faith-based, academically rich education to the families of Raleigh, NC, and surrounding areas. Our current students appreciate that proud history as well as the sense of community that supports them as they are challenged to develop all of their talents—academic, spiritual, artistic and athletic.

Above all, our Catholic faith is at the heart of Our Lady of Lourdes School. This is what sets us apart from other schools and draws us together as a community. Through religious education classes, the religion-based curriculum, opportunities to celebrate the Sacraments, and service to others, we are preparing the leaders of tomorrow. We believe that we are all children of God and are worthy of dignity and respect, and that the values of faith, love, and charity are universal.

When you’re finished browsing our website, I encourage you to contact our admissions director, Anne Holder, and schedule a tour. There is no substitute for visiting our campus and experiencing our school first-hand. I am confident that you will quickly discover why the Our Lady of Lourdes experience is like no other. We look forward to serving you.

Service in Christ,
Jannine LeBlanc
Principal

Value of OLLS

Choosing the right school for your child is a big decision, and at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, we’re here to make it easy.

As a Christ-centered, Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, we nurture the whole child—mind, body, and spirit—providing a strong Catholic education rooted in faith, virtues, and academic excellence. We’re committed to giving your child a safe, supportive environment where they can grow, thrive, and become a light in the world.

We understand the sacrifices of choosing a Catholic education, and we’re dedicated to making it worthwhile—not just through outstanding academics but by surrounding your child with a caring, faith-filled community.

We can’t wait to welcome you and share the faith, focus, and achievement that make Our Lady of Lourdes so special!

School Vision Statement

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School is an elementary school within the Diocese of Raleigh serving boys and girls in grades K-8. Parents have the first and ultimate responsibility for the education of their children. Therefore, the faculty and staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School accept with great pride, but also a great sense of accountability and humility, the parents’ decision to entrust the education of their children at an early age to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School.

At Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, we believe that there is no greater duty than that of ensuring that each child of God receives the best possible education. The goals of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, a contemporary Catholic school, must be education, worship, and the building of a community of faith. At OLL we strive to achieve the following goals:

We believe that our commitment to Christian education calls us to instill in our students a love of God, knowledge of His works, and a desire to live according to Christian ideals and principles.

We believe that education, while providing for individual differences, will equip each student with the basic cognitive skills requisite to a productive and personally satisfying life in our society.

We believe that our faculty and parents working together in mutual respect and reverence, provide an important witness for our students as they grow and develop.

We believe that in cooperation with the parents, the primary educators of their children, the school seeks to move toward perfecting the spiritual, moral, and intellectual values already implanted by the parents in the home.

We believe that education should enhance the social development in each student by teaching a sense of responsibility and service to community, and encouraging a love for democratic ideals, Christian values, and a spirit of freedom which respects the rights of others while recognizing the value of self- discipline and individual initiative.

We believe that we need to hire faculty and staff of the highest quality and engage in continued training and development in both academic subjects and religious education.

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School will strive to create and maintain a model Christian community where we can live and learn together in a manner that encourages each of us—child, parent, teacher, and administrator—to grow.

Our History

Members of our dedicated and creative staff offer the students basic core classes in religion, social studies, science, math and language arts. In addition, students also take an enhancing enrichment curriculum:

Art
Music
Physical Education
Spanish

Our students develop an understanding of Catholic worship through their religion curriculum and their participation in a variety of liturgies and para-liturgical services:

Attendance and active participation in weekly Mass celebrations
Special liturgies for holy days and feast days
Prayer services and Sacramental preparation in unison with the parish community

Additionally at OLLS, students are required to put their faith into action and engage in numerous service projects throughout the year. This is as a school, a class, and as individuals. These are all practices that affirm our Catholic identity.

Finally, at OLL students participate in a variety of athletics (baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball) and extracurricular activities (Chess Club, Drama Club, Science Olympiad, OLL Singers, Battle of the Books, Student Council).