PreK2 – 8th Grade.
A rigorous, joyful curriculum that meets each child where they are — and forms them to think clearly, speak truthfully, and love what is beautiful.
Three stages of school.
A Smart Start
Saint Mary School provides a nurturing environment for little learners to grow and thrive. Children build important academic skills while practicing behaviors critical for success in the upper grades — joyful learning opportunities that foster a love for Jesus through truth, beauty, and goodness.
Making friends while learning to listen, share, and master gross and fine motor skills. Through directed play, children begin to count, sing or say the alphabet, and name body parts. Art projects develop creativity and fine motor control, while we begin potty training and emphasize hygiene essentials like hand washing. Children attend monthly Mass and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Center.
Students build independence: putting on jackets, hanging up backpacks, opening snacks and lunch, and using the potty. Academically, they progress to tracing or writing their name, identifying basic shapes and colors, and understanding the days of the week. Art includes block building, cutting with age-appropriate scissors, and drawing a simple self-portrait. Circle time, ball skills, and group games like musical chairs build cooperation.
Teachers prepare students for the upper grades and the Catholic Classical Liberal Arts curriculum. Foundational reading and writing is strengthened through the Orton-Gillingham Approach, the gold standard for teaching literacy. Through independent play and gentle guidance, children develop critical thinking, conflict resolution, intentional prayer, and appropriate expression of feelings. Monthly Mass and prayer sessions deepen their faith.
A curriculum worth loving.
Religion is not a separate subject — it is the lens through which everything is taught.
From Aesop and Beowulf to Shakespeare and Chesterton — the great voices of our tradition.
Progress in Math — mastery in the lower grades; algebra and geometry by 8th grade.
Outdoor learning at every grade level — nature study, field observation, physical science, biology, and STEM enrichment in middle school.
Latin from Kindergarten forward — the key to language, history, and the liturgy.
A full art program at every grade level — drawing, painting, and design that form students to love beauty.
Children's choir and hymnody — students sing at school Masses and celebrations.
Taught chronologically through the lens of salvation history — always with the Church in view.
Room to grow outside the classroom.
- Girls and boys soccer
- Basketball
- Softball / baseball
- Irish Step Dancing
- Chess
- Girl Scouts
- Theater Works
- Choir
- Cheerleading
Everything taught through the lens of faith.
Religion is not a separate subject — it is the lens through which everything is taught. Students grow in daily prayer, attend weekly Mass, study salvation history, scripture, Church teachings, and the lives of the saints. They are formed in virtue and invited to become disciples who know, love, and serve Jesus.
A secure place to learn.
Saint Mary School has a full-time certified nurse and two security guards, both former police officers, so families can feel confident their children are cared for in a safe environment.
Ready for what comes next.
Students graduate as academically prepared, articulate, and virtuous young people — ready for the challenges of high school and equipped with the habits of lifelong learners who seek what is true, pursue what is good, and delight in what is beautiful.
Affiliated with the ICLE renewal movement.
Saint Mary is proud to teach in the tradition of the Catholic Church’s liberal arts renewal — a national movement of schools returning to the true, the good, and the beautiful.
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