Welcome to our St. Mary School Website!

    Our website will provide you with information concerning our school and its many activities. Along with these activities we will also share with you our Mission Statement and beliefs, information from our Advisory Board meetings, Home and School meetings, and various academic programs made available to our students. Together, as a community of parents and educators, we have dedicated ourselves to educating our children to be caring and compassionate Catholic Christians in their daily living as collaborative workers, critical thinkers, and life-long learners. We believe that your child's success depends on a spirit of cooperation and efforts by school and parents in partnership. We welcome the opportunity to share with you the goal of creating an academic environment where children flourish.
     We at St. Mary School consider communications with our parents to be of utmost importance, as evidenced by our website, our Parent Handbook, and our weekly Thursday Folder. I will also be communicating weekly with our parents on our website with the link Thursday Thoughts. Please take time to become familiar with all that will be shared on our website.

Carlton Rider
Principal

Our Mission Statement

The mission of St. Mary School is to witness the Gospel and to share the spiritual traditions of Catholicism. Our program, in partnership with parents, strives to educate the whole child by providing educational opportunities that nurture each student's individual gifts. As members of the global community, we foster life-long learning, personal responsibility, and emphasize the importance of Christian service.

Our Beliefs:

1. Our Catholic school's priority is the teaching of the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and, as such, is an integral part of our curriculum.

2. Within our Catholic environment, each student is a valued individual with unique spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs.

3. Students are to demonstrate their understanding of essential knowledge, apply their learning in meaningful contexts, be actively involved in solving problems, and produce quality work.

4. Our school prepares students to become contributing members of a global community through service and an education that fosters an understanding and acceptance of diversity.

5. It is essential for students to develop and accept personal responsibility in regards to their academics and social behavior.

6. Student success can only be realized through a cooperative relationship between school and home, accomplished through parental involvement in the religious and academic education of their children.