St. Mary's School

Welcome to St. Mary’s School. In place of the customary platitudes from Heads of Schools that you usually see in corresponding pages on other websites, I am going to cut to the chase and give you my Top Ten List of reasons why St. Mary’s is a great place to be a student. Here we go!



We take the traditional 180-day school year and slice it and dice it in the best possible way for students, and in ways that other schools simply can’t match. Only two other, very highly-regarded, prep schools in the USA offer the module system. Students get six vacations throughout the school year that help overcome the boredom, fatigue, and often depression, that afflict students under the traditional school-year calendar. Within the module system, students choose from a vast array of intriguing courses, taking just 3.5 courses per day for extended class periods, and have personal, adult-like choice in designing their own education while guided by experienced and caring counselors and teachers.



Sorry, parents and teachers, but the most important influence on children's intellectual and character development and their success in life, from ages 12 to 25, from post-elementary school right through young adulthood, is not you, but the peer group they are in, the other people of the same ages that they hang out with, study with, confide in, and count as their friends.* At St. Mary’s School, 100% of your student’s peer group is headed to college.