2025 Summer Schedule
Saint Mary’s offers two summer school sessions. Each session grants 0.5 credit. Two sessions will grant 1.0 full credits. To advance to another course, students must take both sessions. Students may take Algebra 1-2, Speech and Rhetoric 1-2, Evangelization in Modern Media 1, or General English 2. Students who are required to take classes online through another institution must sign up and register through that institution. Please be aware of their deadlines.
Tuition is $200 per session.
SESSION 1: Tuesday, May 27 – Wednesday, June 11 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
SESSION 2: Thursday, June 12 – Friday, June 27 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Tuition includes the use of a textbook. Deadline to register and pay is Friday, May 2. Please use the registration buttons below to sign up. All families must pay tuition by this deadline for courses offered at Saint Mary’s.
All students wear a Saint Mary’s uniform for summer school. The same attendance and disciplinary policies apply during summer school. For summer school guidance questions, please contact your guidance counselor. Students may not miss more than 3 days of class per session, or they will be dropped from the class.
*The cafeteria is open from 9:45-10:15 am for break. For summer school guidance questions please contact your guidance counselor.
REGISTER AND PAY FOR 2025 SUMMER CLASSES
EVANGELIZATION IN MODERN MEDIA 1
Course Descriptions
General English 2 –is available for currently enrolled students who are deficient in any Seat of Wisdom, English, or Foundations of English. Students will work together, regardless of grade level, with a teacher to improve skills related to grammar, reading, class participation, and essay writing. This course is offered in the second session only.
Grade Level: Current 9-11th
Algebra 1-2 – is available to incoming freshman who want to advance to Geometry next school year, and for any student who is deficient in Algebra 1-2. Students who want to advance to Geometry must take both sessions. The course introduces students to the basic structure of Algebra, including reinforcement of all Pre-Algebra skills as well as topics such as algebraic properties and terminology, variables, order of operations, solving linear equations, coordinate graphing, word problems, systems of equations, exponents, polynomials, factoring, quadratic equations, and rational equations.
Grade Level: Current 9th-10th
Speech and Rhetoric 1-2 – is available to rising sophomores, who want to create room in their schedule for other electives, or students with credit deficiencies. The class is offered on a first come-first serve basis and is an accelerated course, and both sessions must be taken to create room in a student’s schedule. The course is about the nature and power of the word in speech, writing, and even thought. This course introduces the student to the basics of the other two elements of the medieval trivium–the arts of language: Logic and Rhetoric. Considerable time will also be given to practicing memorization and public recitation. Students will become more discerning readers, more precise thinkers, and more effective communicators. This is a required course for all sophomores but can be taken in summer before sophomore year. Space is limited.
Grade Level: Current 9th-10th
Evangelization in Media 1 – is an elective course and is available to all students but can also fulfill a theology credit. This class will be offered for all interested students and those who need .5 credits to make up for a deficiency or to create space in a student’s schedule for retaking a core course. Evangelization in Modern Media is designed to provide a foundational understanding of the mode and manner of evangelization through modern media. The class will explore apps, podcasts, and films with the goal of a better understanding of how modern evangelists attempt to bring all men to Christ. This course is only offered during the first summer school session.
Grade Level: Current 9th-11th
