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About Saint Mary Academy
Saint Mary Academy is a Catholic school where learning takes place in a welcoming community with a family atmosphere.
- 2015 National Blue Ribbon
- We are a Catholic school where learning takes place in a welcoming community with a family atmosphere.
- Our faculty and staff are committed to Catholic education and to Saint Mary Academy.
- We focus on the academic, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of our students.
- We provide differentiated instruction in our classrooms to enable our students to reach their full potential, and our staff includes two learning differences coordinators and counselor.
- Saint Mary Academy maintains a model Catholic community. Students feel safe emotionally and physically and are encouraged to develop creative expression and pursue individual talents.
- State-of-the art facilities that include full size gymnasium, after school program, technology/media center, and science lab.
- Our students produce WSMA, a daily news broadcast, as well as classrooms enhanced with sound reinforcement systems, Clevertouch boards, and a 3D printer.
- We sponsor co-curricular activities including Quick Recall, Scouts, 4-H, Robotics, and Choir.
- Our 7th and 8th-grade students participate in a variety of elective courses and our House program to build community and leadership skills.
- We offer a 3 and 4-year-old Preschool program and a Kindergarten through 8th-grade program.
- We offer a complete competitive sports program including Football, Volleyball, Cross Country, Cheerleading, Basketball, Swimming, Soccer, Softball, Baseball, Tennis, Golf, Track, Archery, and Field Hockey.
- Each student in grades K-8 has their own iPad to enhance learning.
Accreditation:
Saint Mary Academy is accredited by AdvancEd as a member of the Archdiocese of Louisville.
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Mission
The mission of Saint Mary Academy is to educate students spiritually, academically, emotionally, and socially through a curriculum rooted in the Roman Catholic faith. Students are educated in a manner that fosters academic excellence, provides a supportive atmosphere, and develops students to be responsible, moral members of their church and community.
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Vision
Saint Mary Academy is a school where each child’s academic, spiritual, and emotional needs are met at the highest level possible. In partnership with parents, Faculty, and Administrators support students in their academic efforts and model Christian behavior and values each day.
Students feel safe emotionally and physically and are encouraged to develop creative expression and pursue individual talents. Saint Mary Academy maintains a model Catholic community that encourages each member to grow toward fulfillment as a total person and a child of God.
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School History
Saint Mary Academy was originally formed in 2007 as a regional covenant school shared by Immaculate Conception and Mother of Good Counsel. It is located in the Norton Commons community and borders the Jefferson and Oldham County lines. The name of the school, Saint Mary Academy, was chosen because it honors Mary, who is both the Immaculate Conception and the Mother of Good Counsel. For the first two years of the school’s existence, students continued to attend classes on two different campuses. The 2007-2008 school year marked the inaugural year of Saint Mary Academy where classes started on August 15th. Saint Mary Academy serves Preschool through Eighth Grade students and is the first regional school in the Archdioceses of Louisville built from the ground up.
On June 20, 2007 Archbishop Kelly clustered the parishes of Transfiguration of Our Lord and Mother of Good Counsel. The merger created a new parish to follow in 2008.
On April 8, 2008, at the bicentennial celebration of the founding of our Diocese, four new parishes were formed: Blessed Theresa of Calcutta; Saint Bernadette; St. Peter the Apostle; and Good Shepherd. The name of our new church, Saint Bernadette, was chosen on the 75th anniversary of the Canonization of Bernadette as a saint and the 150th anniversary of the first apparition.
Several acres of land were donated and on April 28, 2008, Archbishop Kurtz officiated the groundbreaking ceremony of the St. Bernadette Parish Center and Saint Mary Academy. On August 19, 2009, classes began in the new Saint Mary Academy building and on August 31, 2009, the parish staff moved into the completed parish center.
At the end of the 2014 - 2015 school year, SMA became the parish school of Saint Bernadette and we continue to grow together in the spirit of Christ.
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