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Our Mission Statement: "The Mission of St. Mary’s Catholic School is to provide an intellectually challenging, academic advantage for elementary students in a supportive family environment based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the traditions of the Catholic Church." |
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St. Mary's is a special school for a lot of reasons...
St. Mary's School is just such as safe place. Helping our students form a religious identity and moral responsibility is a top priority. Students take part in the weekly liturgy, including readings psalm response, cantering, ushering, serving, and gift bearing. Religion is a part of the daily curriculum at St. Mary's to help our children build a sense of accountability for their actions and a deep-seated compassion for others.
From receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion in the second grade, to a group of fifth graders forming a prayer circle for the sick and needy, religion is intricately woven into St. Mary's education to help our children with the choices they must make as they mature in today's complex world. Catholic and non-Catholic families alike share a profound sense of community within the fold of the St. Mary's School family. From over 300 volunteers that helped with donations and labor to construct our state-of-the-art playground, to school and parish picnics and camp outs, bake sales, Holiday greens sales, the Spring Concert, Market Day™, the annual St. Patrick's Day dinner, to remembering those no longer with us at the lighting of the Parish Christmas tree, St. Mary's families work, play and worship together to invoke a strong bond of community to this extended family. Ours is a sharing, caring family that laughs and strives together to make our school a unique and nurturing environment for our children's education. • Essential Parental Support and Involvement From the Home and School Council and our elected School Board, parent involvement is an essential facet of our school's very existence. Our school is funded solely from the St. Mary's Parish and tuition, donations and fund raisers of St. Mary's School families. Be it carpentry, or accounting, to a pair of hands setting up an event, there is an appropriate place for the talented contributions of all St. Mary's parents. But our true sense of community and support begins in the halls and classrooms of St. Mary's School. After the bustling activities before the morning's first bell, you'll always find a group of parents gathered to discuss the next school event, take up concerns with our administrative staff, or reorganize a carpool schedule for a hard working family. • A Tradition of Academic Excellence that Begins in the Classroom
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Benefits of a Religious Education
Inside
the classroom, another community is forming among teachers and students.
St. Mary's School has one classroom of students per grade. This provides
our children with an intimate educational environment that builds lifelong
bonds of friendship between both our students and their accredited instructors.
As your child achieves each step of a quality education at St. Mary's School,
from Leaps and Bounds Pre-school for threes, fours, and fives, through
sixth grade, he or she will grow and mature surrounded by the comfort and
familiarity of old friends and teachers sensitized with the knowledge of
your child's strengths, needs and challenges – academically,
socially, and spiritually. Since there is so little turnover among
