The Dominican Campus

The Dominican Campus is located on 92 wooded acres in Nashville, Tennessee. Owned by the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Cecilia, the Campus is home to Overbrook School, St. Cecilia Academy, and Aquinas College.

Since coming to Nashville in 1860, the Sisters have fulfilled their vocational mission of education, leading students to a deeper knowledge of their faith, their heritage, and their responsibilities as members of society. Saint Dominic de Guzman founded the Dominican Order, also known as the Order of Preachers, in 1216. Saint Dominic saw a need for prayerful preachers and teachers, thoroughly educated in both the sacred and secular subjects, to teach the Truths of the Faith.

The St. Cecilia Congregation was founded in 1860 when four Dominican sisters from Ohio came to Nashville to open St. Cecilia Academy as a boarding school for young women. Today, the Congregation of St. Cecilia is a growing and vibrant Congregation of more than 200 Sisters. In addition to The Dominican Campus, the congregation carries its apostolic mission to teach into the new millennium with 30 schools in 12 states.

Located in separate facilities on the campus, Overbrook School, St. Cecilia Academy, and Aquinas College endeavor to nourish the intellectual gifts of students and to develop their spiritual and physical potential.

Overbrook School, founded in 1936, serves the educational needs of Middle Tennessee area boys and girls in preschool, beginning with age four, through grade eight.

Since 1860, St. Cecilia Academy has provided educational excellence for young women in grades nine through twelve.

Aquinas College is a co-educational college offering Bachelor and Associate degree programs in a variety of formats for traditional and non–traditional students.