Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Inside SMA    
Mission and Motto
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Saint Michael’s Episcopal School is a coeducational college preparatory day school serving early childhood through the twelfth grade. A rigorous, classical curriculum prepares students for college and infuses them with lifelong intellectual curiosity. In this definition, a classical education emphasizes the interrelationship of all disciplines in all aspects, ancient and modern, cultural and spiritual. A classical education must include a process of searching and questioning.

Saint Michael’s operates in an atmosphere of trust, cooperation, and commitment among parents, faculty, and students. The school promotes a vision of the individual’s responsibility in a world community. Methods of teaching have the objectives of instilling knowledge, developing mental discipline, and stimulating curiosity and creativity. Saint Michael’s promotes fair competition and provides a setting where students can develop clear values and moral vision. 

Students who attend Saint Michael’s come from a wide geographic area representing all of Brazos County and beyond. The school is small by design and caps its single section of each grade at sixteen students. A member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, Saint Michael’s is fully accredited by the Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools, the only faith-based accrediting association recognized by the National Association of Independent Schools.

Saint Michael’s Episcopal School is a day school providing a classical, college preparatory program for children of all faiths and nations. The school is committed to the ideals expressed in its motto: Scientia, Pietas, Fides, “Learning, Character, and Faith.”
History
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Founded in 1972 by Dr. James and Mrs. Helen Spencer and chartered as an Episcopal day school and non-profit corporation governed by a self-sustaining Board of Trustees, Saint Michael’s is an independent school that maintains close relations with local parishes through the Episcopal Community Network. The school relocated to its present seven acres on South College Avenue in 1990.
 
From the very beginning, Saint Michael’s undertook the mission of providing a superior education in an atmosphere of kindness and moral courage. The school grew over time to include a high school, from which the first senior graduated in 1983. Since then graduates have gone on to matriculate at excellent universities and have pursued careers of honor and accomplishment.
 
Recent years have witnessed campus expansions and improvements to its infrastructure. Mrs. Spencer retired following the 2006-2007 school year, leaving behind an enduring legacy of an education that strikes the proper balance between head and heart, mind and character - - the balance that cultivates and sustains enlightened leadership for the future good of all.
The SMA Campus
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Saint Michael’s Episcopal school is located at 2500 S. College in Bryan, about one mile north of the Bryan/College Station boundary and two miles north of the Texas A&M campus. The school’s seven acres includes playing fields, playgrounds, four classroom buildings and a church facility that houses early childhood rooms, a cafeteria, and a sanctuary. Due for completion in the fall of 2008 is a gymnasium and performing arts complex. Owning also a number of surrounding homes, the school is well positioned for the demands of future growth.
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