St. Mary's School

St. Mary's School Founded in 1865, St. Mary's School inspires all students to discover their talents in a uniquely responsive Catholic environment. St. Mary’s Academy. In 1961 St.
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Mary’s School was founded in the pioneer 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. Operating as a twelve-year (the upper grades were limited to girls) boarding and day school, it served pioneer families in southern Oregon and northern California. Mary’s graduated its first student in 1871. Mary’s moved to Medford in 1908 and in the late 1920s became coeducational, graduating its first boy in 1930. In 1948 the Sisters of the Holy Names transferred title of the school to Sacred Heart Parish, which operated it as a twelve-year coeducational school for the next 13 years. Mary’s Elementary and High School separated into two schools when the present high school was built on Black Oak Drive. In 1971 when 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 the state of Oregon. With the Archbishop’s permission, St. Mary’s added a middle school after a fire damaged 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 the, St. Mary’s completed an expanded parking facility, an all-weather eight-lane track, upgraded athletic fields, and a library/media and science center with three science labs and seven additional classrooms. Future plans include a student commons, performing arts center, a chapel, and an administration building.

09/21/2026

Parent Ambassadors is the best way to be in the know and get involved on campus at St. Mary’s School! Join us for the kickoff meeting on Wednesday, September 23 at 8:30 am in the Carrico Center.

Stop by the STEM Center and you may find a classroom full of cow femurs! Anatomy students took a break from building the...
09/17/2026

Stop by the STEM Center and you may find a classroom full of cow femurs! Anatomy students took a break from building their muscular system models to get a closer look at what lies beneath, dissecting cow femur bones in the lab.

By examining a real bone, students were able to see structures that are difficult to fully understand from a diagram or model and make connections between a bone’s structure and its function.

09/16/2026

What do a spoon, a binder clip and a bird beak have in common? 🐦

Quite a bit, if you’re a sixth grader in Project WILD.

After learning about local birds like turkey vultures, osprey, acorn woodpeckers and red-tailed hawks, students put adaptation to the test. Spoons, forks, knives and binder clips became “beaks” as they raced to gather different food sources.

Then the environment changed.

Suddenly, some beaks worked better than others. Some birds thrived. Others went “extinct.” And a lesson about adaptation, habitat and survival became something students could actually see—and experience—for themselves.

Later, they took that learning up Mt. St. Mary’s, nature journals in hand, to observe the real thing.

09/16/2026

🍪 Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

Bake your best. Bring your appetite. And prepare for some serious cookie competition.

The 2nd Annual Cookie Taste Test Competition is coming to St. M! Think your homemade cookies have what it takes? Enter them. Prefer to leave the baking to someone else? Come taste the competition and cast your vote.

🏆 One mission: BEST COOKIE.
Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!

📅 Friday, October 2 | 5:30–6:30 p.m.
📍 Carrico Center
🍪 Open to students, parents, families & friends
🎟️ FREE to compete, attend, and taste test
🥂 Beer, wine & refreshments available

Competing? Bring two dozen homemade cookies on your own serving platter and arrive by 5:15 p.m. All kinds of cookies are welcome, including gluten-free. Each cookie should be cut into 8 tasting pieces.

Your competition is out there. Do you accept the mission? Sign up in the Weekly Review or the main office.
🕵️🍪

Some lessons are best learned with both feet off the ground. Our fifth graders recently headed to the Siskiyou Field Ins...
09/14/2026

Some lessons are best learned with both feet off the ground.

Our fifth graders recently headed to the Siskiyou Field Institute, where the low ropes course put more than their balance to the test.

They had to communicate. Trust each other. Solve problems. Encourage a classmate. And sometimes find the courage to try something that felt a little uncomfortable.

There were plenty of smiles along the way, but there was some pretty important learning happening, too: discovering what you’re capable of when you’re willing to try something new and when you know your classmates have your back.

If you opened the calendars for our staff members, you’d soon see that our Principal, Jim Meyer, is arguably the busiest...
09/02/2026

If you opened the calendars for our staff members, you’d soon see that our Principal, Jim Meyer, is arguably the busiest man on campus. He is constantly meeting with students, parents, and faculty. He is at events, in classrooms, and taking alumni out for coffee. He makes so many decisions for our school on a day-to-day basis that it would make the average person’s head spin! But he seems to always have time for a student, without fail. It’s these moments that mean the most. It’s these moments that make the difference. We caught this moment in the front office as he helped with a homework lesson. 🫶🏽

We were honored to host students from Alba, Italy 🇮🇹 for a reception, campus tour, and classroom experiences this mornin...
09/02/2026

We were honored to host students from Alba, Italy 🇮🇹 for a reception, campus tour, and classroom experiences this morning. What an incredible opportunity for these students to visit their sister city in the USA. Two SMS families are hosting this year for the annual student exchange. The sister cities of Medford and Alba have been partnered for 60 years and the exchange has been around for the last 40 years.

Join us in Illinois Valley for a little Monday Night Football! Friday's opening game has been moved to Monday. We'll see...
08/27/2026

Join us in Illinois Valley for a little Monday Night Football! Friday's opening game has been moved to Monday. We'll see you at 7:00 for kickoff! Go Crusaders!

Today from 3:00-4:00 you can score 50% everything in our spirit store! Meet us in front of the main gate to grab your ge...
08/21/2026

Today from 3:00-4:00 you can score 50% everything in our spirit store! Meet us in front of the main gate to grab your gear at a great price!

Our Mod Abroad students pose next to one of Iceland's most iconic waterfalls, Skogafoss. The nearly 200-foot falls is fa...
06/17/2026

Our Mod Abroad students pose next to one of Iceland's most iconic waterfalls, Skogafoss. The nearly 200-foot falls is famous for its bright, often double, rainbows.

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816 Black Oak Drive
Medford, OR
97504

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Monday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 4:30pm

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+15417737877

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