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Becoming partners

Here’s what your student’s week actually looks like.

We treat parents as partners: one set of named adults for four years, and a phone call — not an email — when something slips. Below, the guidance parents and counselors ask us for most.

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Parents and guardians
A week at St. Mary’s, tuition and aid in plain terms, what the weekly chapel hour is and isn’t, and who to call.
Middle-school counselors
Recommendation form, transcript request, HSPT dates, and how we read an eighth-grade file.

A Tuesday

A Tuesday, hour by hour.

What a school day actually looks like, hour by hour. Come and see one.

8:00
Becoming ready
Classes
Boys and girls in separate classrooms, the same faculty and course of study across both divisions.
11:30
Lunch
Students eat lunch with their own division.
3:15
Practice, rehearsal, or the newspaper
Athletics, arts and clubs are shared across the school.
7:00
Growing away from home
Study hall in the residence hall
For boarders: structured, with adults nearby.

Plain answers

You have questions. Start anywhere.

Short answers, in plain words, each with the date it was last checked.

What does a typical day look like?

Advisory first — a small group and one adult who knows you. Then classes in boys-only rooms with the same faculty and course of study the Girls Division uses. Students eat lunch with their own division. Afternoons are practice, rehearsal or a club; boarders end the day in a structured study hall with adults nearby. It is a regular day, and that is the point.