St. Mary's School (Medford, Oregon)
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816 Black Oak Drive Medford, Oregon, Jackson County 97504 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°18′51″N 122°50′11″W / 42.31417°N 122.83639°WCoordinates: 42°18′51″N 122°50′11″W / 42.31417°N 122.83639°W |
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| Type | Private, Coeducational |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1865 |
| Superintendent | Frank Phillips |
| Principal | James Meyer |
| Grades | 5–12 |
| Hours in school day | 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue, Columbia Blue and White |
| Mascot | Crusaders |
| Website | http://smschool.us/ |
St. Mary's School is a coeducational, independent Roman Catholic college preparatory school in Medford, Oregon within the Archdiocese of Portland. St. Mary’s School was founded in 1865 as a boarding and day school to serve pioneering families throughout southern Oregon and northern California. Today, it provides a college preparatory curriculum for students in grades 6-12. The 24-acre campus is located in east Medford.
St. Mary's School was founded in the mining town of Jacksonville, Oregon, in 1865 by three members of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and was known as St. Mary's Academy. Operating as a twelve-year (the upper grades were limited to girls) boarding and day school serving families in Southern Oregon and Northern California. St. Mary's graduated its first student in 1871.
St. Mary's moved to Medford, Oregon in 1908 and in the late 1920s became coeducational, graduating its first boy in 1930. In 1948, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary transferred the title of the school to the Sacred Heart Parish, which operated it as a twelve-year coeducational school for the next 13 years. In 1961 St. Mary's Elementary and High School separated into two schools when the current high school was built on Black Oak Drive.
In 1971, when the Sacred Heart Parish determined it could no longer financially support two schools, a group of supporters raised funds, and gained permission from the Archbishop to incorporate as an independent, Catholic school, the first in Oregon.
With the Archbishop's permission St. Mary's added a middle school in 1987 after a fire damaged the Sacred Heart School and representatives of the parish and greater community asked the Board of Trustees to transfer the seventh and eighth grades to the school. A sixth grade was added in 1992.
In 1998, St. Mary's began its first capital expansion in 31 years with a five-phase building campaign. Since 1998, St. Mary's completed an expanded parking facility, an all-weather eight-lane track and upgraded athletic fields and a library/media and science center with three science labs and seven additional classrooms.
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