St. Mary’s, an acclaimed private Catholic school founded in 1950, offers PreK–8th grade education. With a dynamic STREAM curriculum, it excels in science, technology, faith formation, arts, and mathematics while providing small class sizes, personalized instruction, athletics, and extracurricular programs.
At St. Mary’s School teachers recognize that all children develop at different rates and have differing abilities and interests. Our approach to education looks at the whole child, not the sum of discrete academic areas. In addition to direct academic instruction in the content areas and religion, students attend weekly classes in art, music, physical education, technology and Spanish. These experiences enrich the academic program and offer cross-curricular connections to the classroom when possible.
Partnership of Faith and Science:
St. Mary’s students learn to see the material universe as God’s creation and to explore how faith and science work together to deepen their understanding of it.
“…there is friendship between science and faith, and through their vocation to the study of nature, scientists can take an authentic and fascinating path of holiness.”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Committed, Enthusiastic Faculty:
St. Mary’s science faculty are distinguished leaders in their field, earning national accolades, securing research grants, and presenting at NSTA conferences. Their excellence is reflected in our students, who receive recognition at the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair and consistently achieve top scores—95% of Algebra I students have earned Advanced marks on the state End of Course exam.
Integrated Curriculum:
Faculty across all grade levels engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, refining students’ writing and research abilities while integrating science with mathematics, art, language arts, and history to foster a comprehensive academic foundation.
Access to Resources:
Situated in the heart of Oak Ridge—home to the DOE’s renowned Oak Ridge National Laboratory—St. Mary’s offers students unparalleled access to scientific expertise. Beyond the laboratory’s cutting-edge research, the nearby Smoky Mountains serve as an immersive outdoor classroom, where middle school students engage in hands-on environmental studies through specialized programs at Wesley Woods in Townsend, TN.
