St. Leo School

08/20/2026

Happy Birthday! 🎉 Wishing you a wonderful day and an amazing year ahead! 🎂

08/17/2026

📣 St. Leo Families!

Please check your email for the first installment of The Rowe Report! 🦁💚Your weekly go-to for everything you need to know for the week ahead. Stay informed, stay connected, and have a great week! ⭐

08/17/2026

🔬 Our 8th grade scientists learned how the properties of objects help us sort them into different categories. Our scientists practiced observing, comparing, and classifying! 🧪🔍

08/14/2026

What a beautiful way to begin a new school year! Today, our school community came together to celebrate our first Mass of the year, giving thanks for the blessings before us and asking God to guide our students, teachers, staff, and families in the months ahead.

May this year be filled with faith, friendship, growth, and many opportunities to share Christ’s love with one another. 💙✝️

**Here’s to a blessed and wonderful school year!**

08/13/2026

🍎✏️ First Day of Preschool! ✏️🍎

Welcome to our littlest friends! 🥰 We are so excited for a year filled with learning, laughter, new friendships, and BIG adventures for our tiniest learners. 💛

Here’s to a wonderful first day and an amazing year ahead! 🖍️📚✨

08/13/2026

Let’s help Mrs. Rowe share the good news about St. Leo! 🎉 Enrollment is still open, and there’s still time to join our St. Leo family. ❤️💙 Know a family who might be a great fit? Share this post and help spread the word! 📣

St. Leo’s new principal wants to grow enrollment, support teachers, make learning fun for students

By Bob Vlach
Woodford Sun Staff
As Kelly Rowe begins her tenure as principal at St. Leo School, she wants to be a part of the community and let families know about the education being offered at St. Leo.
By incorporating prayer and being a Christian during the school day, Rowe said, “We can help (our students) deal with things through faith.”
“My goal at the end of the day,” she added, “is that we are good people, that our students are good people.”
St. Leo is a part of the Catholic Church, but “we welcome all students,” she said. “… We want to provide every student out there – regardless of faith – a wonderful education.”
Not all of the students and teachers at St. Leo are Catholic (she didn’t convert to Catholicism until five years ago), but teachers can incorporate faith into lessons about kindness, empathy and compassion, Rowe said.
She said St. Leo offers an educational option to parents – from its smaller class sizes to how technology is used in the classroom.
“We incorporate technology,” she said, “but we don’t teach with technology.” Instead, she said technology is used for research and to reinforce skills, “but we are not teaching through our devices. We are teaching person to person.”
Rowe views herself as a teacher’s principal. So don’t expect her to stay in her office. She likes being in classrooms so she can support her teachers to ensure students are getting the best education possible.
Having spent the first 16 years of her career in the Lexington Diocese at Seton Catholic School teaching, she said, “I’m not so removed that I don’t remember the trials and tribulations of being a teacher. But they are the rock stars of this school. The teachers are the heart of every school. And so my job is just to support them.”
She also embraces opportunities to interact with students because “if the kids don’t want to be here, then they’re not going to learn. So you have to have a little bit of sparkle and razzamatazz, so the kids want to come to school, they are excited about coming to school.”
In 2021, Rowe was hired as principal at Good Shepherd School, where she spent the last five years helping grow enrollment, while increasing parent involvement and community support, she said. The time had come for her to pass the baton to Good Shepherd’s next leader when she met with longtime St. Leo Principal Helena DiBiasie in the spring.
During their meeting, DiBiasie told her that the teachers and staff at St. Leo are amazing. Once Rowe met with them one-on-one, she realized, “They are. They are truly dedicated to St. Leo and to our students. And every decision that they make puts the students first. And that’s my philosophy.”
Coming to St. Leo gives Rowe another opportunity to help grow enrollment and community support, telling the Sun, “I always say, ‘Once you’re in the doors, you want to stay.’”

08/12/2026

🎉 We had a great first day of school! It was wonderful to welcome our students back and see our classrooms and hallways filled with smiles, excitement, and plenty of energy.

A new school year brings new opportunities to learn, grow, build friendships, and make lasting memories. We’re so excited for all that this year has in store for our students, families, teachers, and staff.

Here’s to a fantastic school year ahead! 📚✏️🍎

08/12/2026

Elementary school supplies vs. middle school supplies… 🤔✏️📚

We’re not giving you any hints. 😂

Swipe through the photos and see if you can tell: Elementary or Middle School? Bonus points if you get them ALL right! 🏆

08/12/2026

Rain or shine, it’s a great day to start a new school year! ☔️☀️📚

Happy first day of school from our new principal, Kelly Rowe! We’re excited to welcome our students, families, faculty, and staff back and look forward to a wonderful year ahead. 💙

08/11/2026

🎒✨ **TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY!** ✨🎒

The backpacks are packed. 🎒
The pencils are sharpened. ✏️
The classrooms are ready. 📚
And our teachers are SO excited! ❤️

**St. Leo, SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW for K-8!** 🎉

We can’t wait to see our halls filled with smiling faces, hear all about summer adventures, and kick off an amazing new school year together!

📸 Don’t forget to stop for a picture with our **First Day of School sign** out front! Parents, we’d love to see your photos—send your favorite first-day snapshots to Principal Rowe at [email protected].

⏰ **Doors open at 7:00 a.m.**

Get a good night’s sleep, set those alarms, and we’ll see you in the morning! 💙🦁

K-8,...Who’s ready for the FIRST DAY?! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🎉