Welcome to the St. Mary's Academy & College website. We hope you enjoy your visit to our school website. For ease of navigation, the left menu displays links to the main sections of the site. For your convenience, we feature a Site Map, which will display links to each page on the site.

If you are unfamiliar with St. Mary's Academy & College, a brief introduction is in order. Our schools are incorporated in Kansas under the title of "The Society of Saint Pius X, Saint Mary's, Inc." St. Mary's is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, an international priestly society founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to maintain the traditional Catholic priesthood and all the works related to it.

The statutes of the Society of St. Pius X state that "schools, truly free and unfettered, able to bestow on youth a thoroughly Christian education, shall be fostered and, if need be, founded by the members of the Society. From these will come vocations and Christian homes" (Statutes III, 4). To this end, Archbishop Lefebvre founded St. Mary's Academy & College.

Our property is located in Kansas, America's heartland, on 465 rolling acres. We are approximately twenty-five miles west of Topeka, the State Capitol, and seventy-five miles west of Kansas City. The Jesuits originally constructed our eleven historical buildings on the site of an old mission, dating from 1848, where they served the Potawatomi Indians. In the early 1900's, Saint Mary's was a well-known college and seminary. It closed in 1967 and was purchased for the Society in 1978.

Since that time, our schools have grown considerably. In September, 2003, the Academy numbered over 750 students in grades K - 12. The College numbered over 60 students. We receive neither government or corporate funding to run our schools, since we wish to remain completely free from any interference in the Catholic structure of our programs. Our income depends exclusively on tuition payment and donations from our friends and benefactors.

The ultimate goal of our schools is to form good Catholics and good citizens in such a manner that the whole person may be submitted to the reign of Jesus Christ in the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and physical spheres. We are committed to fulfill with loyalty and dedication Archbishop Lefebvre's command:

"We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of Faith have to be reconstructed; firstly the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then our chapels, monasteries, our large families, our enterprises faithful to the social politics of the Church, our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ - this is a whole fiber of Christian social life, Christian customs, Christian reflexes, which we have to restore."

We hope that you enjoy our website, which will be frequently updated as new features are added. Check back often for on-going renovation.

Please visit our Welcome page, which includes a note from the Rector of St. Mary's Academy & College, Fr. Vicente Griego.

Thanks for visiting!