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Mary, Seat of Wisdom has served the community for over sixty years and has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
Our mission, "to empower our students with the knowledge, values, and skills which will enable them to become active participants and effective leaders in both the church and world community," serves as the touchstone for everything we do.
Mary, Seat of Wisdom School has served the Park Ridge, Chicago,
and surrounding communities for sixty years and has been recognized
by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School of
Excellence. Knowing that all students learn best when they feel
secure, MSW teachers, administrators, and parents work closely
together to provide a safe and nurturing learning environment
rooted in our Catholic identity. Our mission, "to empower our
students with the knowledge, values, and skills which will enable
them to become active participants and effective leaders in both
the church and world community," serves as the touchstone for
everything we do. At its core, the development of the whole child
includes the fostering of faith, and goes beyond a basic religion
curriculum. Instruction includes a rich sacramental program with
discussion of theological doctrine and experiences designed to
encourage students to follow Christ as a way of life.MSW
offers students the best of both worlds: an excellent well-rounded
education with sixty years of tradition incorporating the
advantages of recent advances in technology and curricular
innovation. The School facilities include two gymnasiums, a
stage, Computer and Science Labs, a renovated Library, and a new
STEAM/STEM Lab. The School program includes three and four
year old preschool classes, and differentiated learning for all
students in the building. The School also offers an Extended
Day program for students needing before and after care and a hot
lunch program. Recent curricular highlights include in-house
services for students with special needs (resource, speech, and
social work), Spanish, which is taught from K through 8th Grade, as
well as Media and Technology classes. Each classroom is
equipped with an interactive Promethean Board; there are mobile
"Smart Tables", a mobile laptop lab, and three mobile iPad
carts. The Science and Social Studies curriculums are new,
both with online features.MSW`s academic program is amplified
by a wide variety of extracurricular activities available to
students of all ages, including intramurals, interscholastic
sports, Band and piano, Student Council, yearbook, academic bowls,
coding, Battle of the Books, Scouting, performing arts---both
choral and dramatic, as well as robotic activities. Over one
hundred-fifty MSW students participate in the student service
organization, Kids Who Care. Activities enhancing MSW`s Catholic
Identity mission include bi-weekly school masses or liturgies,
monthly all-school assemblies which expand on elements of the
year`s Catholic Identity theme and faith-partner activities which
build the school community. Participation in Catholic Schools
Week, the 3rd Grade All-Saints Day celebration, 1st Grade Nativity
re-enactment, 8th Grade presentation of the Living Stations of the
Cross, and the annual May crowning ceremony are examples of
how religion is woven into each school day. Students
are proud of MSW, creating a connection that lasts beyond high
school and college. A strong mission and a strong tradition
combined with a faculty and administration committed to academic
excellence and innovation, have created a rich, nurturing learning
experience in which students thrive spiritually, academically, and
socially.
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