Contributing to an institutional campaign is an opportunity to give back to a school that has nurtured and supported you and your family, while also helping future families to benefit from a Saint Mary’s education. Today's Saint Mary’s students benefit from the generosity and investment of families who have come before them.
As an independent school, Saint Mary’s has the ability to define its mission and enjoy freedoms not inherent in other educational institutions. The school enjoys:
- The freedom to define our own mission: why we exist, whom we serve.
- The freedom to regulate admissions: admitting those students who are in alignment with our mission.
- The freedom to define teacher credentials.
- The freedom to teach what we as educators decide understand to be important: we are free from state curricular, textbook, and testing mandates).
With these independent-school freedoms, comes financial independence that requires Saint Mary's to rely on support from alumnae, our families and friends, to perpetuate Saint Mary’s proud, independent heritage.