Mount Saint Mary Academy is an all-girls private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

, Roman Catholic high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 in Kenmore, New York

Kenmore, New York

Village of Kenmore is a village in Erie County, New York, in the United States. The population was 16,426 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area....

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Background

Mount Saint Mary Academy was established in 1927 by the Sisters of St. Mary

Sisters of St. Mary

The Sisters of St. Mary was a former Roman Catholic religious congregation for women based in St. Louis, Missouri that founded hospitals throughout the Midwest...

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Accredited by:

• The New York State Board of Regents.
• Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools

Member of:

• National Catholic Education Association
• Catholic Schools Administrators Association of New York State
• National Association of Secondary Schools Principals
• Bissnet

The school has a student to faculty ratio of less than 10:1. Students regularly outperform their peers on standardized tests. The average SAT scores of students in the Class of 2008, all of whom take the SAT, are: Critical Reading: 560 Math: 551 Writing: 574. Their ACT Composite is 24.