Villa Maria (school)

Villa Maria is a subsidized private Catholic co-educational high school located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, offering both francophone and anglophone streams. Founded in 1854 as a boarding school for girls, it stopped boarding students in 1966 and opened, in August 2016, to boys in the seventh grade. Today, there are roughly 950 students in the French sector and 800 students in the English sector with an average class size of 34 students. Current tuition as of the 2024–2025 school year is $4,900 with $2,330 in extra mandatory fees. It ranked among the top 50 best high schools in Montreal, and is one of the largest private high schools on the Island.

The central part of the Villa Maria school is known as the Monklands Mansion and was the home of the governor general of Canada from 1844 to 1849. It is a National Historic Site of Canada. In 2023, the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal announced that the estate on which the school lies will be sold off, leaving the future of the school uncertain. The current lease ends in 2030, and the Congregation intends to put the land on sale the following year. The Congregation cited the falling number of nuns as one of the reasons behind its decision to sell. While Villa Maria would like to purchase the real estate, negotiations have not been successful.