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St. Mary School

Private | K-8 | 220 students

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Elgin's St. Mary School is a private school serving 220 students in grades K-8. It is coed, religious and Roman Catholic affiliated. The school belongs to the following...

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I need to disagree with this parent's review of the principal. The new...
This school has a wonderful 2nd grade teacher, but I removed my kids after...
St. Mary's has very good teachers for k,1st,2nd, and 4th. My son's 3rd grade...

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78% of students at this school are White.

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Situated in an urban neighborhood. The median home value is $91,000. The average monthly rent for a 2 bedroom apartment is $940.

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Posted March 7, 2013

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I need to disagree with this parent's review of the principal. The new principal is Brilliant! She has really brought this school around this year and maybe the reason the teachers feel she treats them unfairly is that many of the teachers slack off. The children are doing the bare minimum of work and AGREE, they are behind the public schools academically. This new principal will force these teachers to step up and do the job they are paid for.
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Posted January 15, 2013

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This school has a wonderful 2nd grade teacher, but I removed my kids after realizing that St. Mary is way behind the local school district in academics. My child came out of 6th grade just doing long division and my 3rd grader had never seen simple division. I spent the first quarter of this public school year catching my kids up where they were supposed to be academically. This school boasts higher test score which is false...the children are behind academically and no one seems to care.
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Posted May 23, 2012

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St. Mary's has very good teachers for k,1st,2nd, and 4th. My son's 3rd grade teacher said he was doing fine but he wasn't come to find out he is 2 yrs behind in math. The new principal doesn't reach out to parents doesn't listen to you or answers any of your questions all you get is I'm aware of the problem but does nothing about it paying way to much money for kids to go there and have some teachers who shouldn't be teaching and a principal that doesn't seem to care they do have a few teachers that are very helpful and involved in the kids and their parents
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Student ethnicity

Ethnicity	This school	State average
White	78%	54%
Hispanic	10%	20%
Asian/Pacific Islander	6%	4%
Black	3%	19%
American Indian/Alaska Native	2%	0%

Source: NCES, 2007-2008

Student-teacher ratio

	This school	District average	State average
Students per FTE teacher	20	N/A	N/A

Source: NCES, 2007-2008

Teacher resources

Foreign languages spoken by school staff	Tagalog
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Arts & music

Visual arts	Painting
Music	Band Choir / Chorus
Performing and written arts	Drama

Language learning

Foreign languages taught	Spanish
Foreign languages spoken by staff	Tagalog

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School basics

School start time	8:15am
School end time	2:25pm
Before school or after school care / program onsite	After school
School Leader's name	Mr. Carl Koester
Gender	Coed
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Associations	NCEA

Programs

Specific academic themes or areas of focus Don't understand these terms?	Religious
Foreign languages taught	Spanish

Resources

Foreign languages spoken by staff	Tagalog
Transportation provided for students by the school / district	None

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Sports

Boys sports	Basketball Track Volleyball
Girls sports	Basketball Cheerleading Track Volleyball

Arts & music

Visual arts	Painting
Music	Band Choir / Chorus
Performing arts	Drama

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