St. Gerard Majella School Kirkwood, MO

Welcome to St. Gerard Majella Catholic Elementary School! St. Gerard Majella is a wonderful, close-knit, faith-filled
community that I am happy to be a part of each day. We are extremely proud of all that we have to offer our students and families. It is our privilege to work with parents in helping their children grow academically, spiritually, and socially.

St. Gerard Majella provides a nurturing, Catholic learning environment for 548 students from preschool through
Grade 8. SGM is a place where the promise and potential of every child begins to be realized and it is the place
where your child will have the opportunity to be Rooted in Faith, Grounded in Excellence, Prepared for Success!

I invite you to visit us and witness our mission in action and that you will feel at home at St. Gerard Majella School.

St. Gerard Majella, pray for us!

Ms. Lucy Gintz

Principal

lgintz@sgmschool.org

Mission

St. Gerard Majella School is a place where the promise and potential of every child begins to be realized. The basis of our philosophy is our commitment to educating the whole child while recognizing each child's individuality. In a warm and nurturing environment, faith is strengthened, academic skills are developed, and friendships are formed. Working in partnership with the entire parish community, we prepare students to meet future faith and academic challenges and responsibilities. We believe that respect for self and others is the key to positive self-esteem. We
believe that the development of the whole child is best nurtured when there is positive interaction among the home,school, and community.

Purpose

St. Gerard Majella Parish School exists as a Faith Community of priests, teachers, students, parents, and parishioners striving together to sustain and promote quality education for our students which is distinctly Catholic as well as contemporary. As a Faith Community, we are committed to the three-fold purpose of Catholic Education: The MESSAGE of Jesus, Life in COMMUNITY, and SERVICE for all. Our school theme is Growing in the Trinity: Love, Mercy, and Grace.

Quality

St. Gerard Majella is a fully-accredited Catholic elementary school for children in preschool through Grade 8. Our faculty offers added support to students and their families through the CARE Team, a resource for individualized assistance. We are a Google Apps for Education school with students in grades 2–8 have supervised Google accounts. We have a full-time STREAM teacher and a lab that students use daily.

Dynamic Community

All members of this community strive to create a warm, accepting environment in which each person feels comfortable to grow as an individual and in his or her relationship with Christ. We have robotics, Project Lead the Way classes, Dancing Classrooms, 6th Grade Camp, Student Council, Chess Club, Bellarmine Speech League, Ambassadors, Faith Families as just a few ways in which we enhance a child's learning experience.

Statistics

Blue Ribbon School of Excellence 2012

Preschool-8th Grade enrollment of 548

1:1 Chromebooks in middle school with a strong emphasis on technology throughout the school. Grades 3-5 are assigned a class Chromebook. St. Gerard Majella School is a Google Apps partner.

Support staff includes: full-time nurse, part-time counselor, 3 full-time resource teachers, academic facilitator, part-time technology coordinator, assistant principal, CRE, and aides from 3/4 through grade 3.