St. Mary's Chinese Schools and Center is now 80 years young.
It has become world-reknown for its excellence in bicultural education, social outreach programs,
and spiritual services. St. Mary's principal components are:
- An outstanding English elementary day school, with 290 pupils enrolled in kindergarten through
eighth grade, which consistently produces top scorers in high school admission assessments
- An excellent Chinese Language School, teaching both Cantonese and Mandarin to 600 students, making
complete use of late afternoons, evenings, weekends, and summer hours;
- A social outreach program, called Teahouse, offering English, naturalization, and acculturation
classes for newcomers to our shores, and specializing in counseling for domestic violence and addictive
gambling;
- A proven, energetic, year-round, extra-curriculum for young adults, teenagers, and children, such
as the summer program, S.M.I.L.E. (St. Mary's Incredible Learning Experience);
- Comfortable, bilingual and bicultural spiritual growth and support programs, which include smoothly
merging Far Eastern and Christian religious values.
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