St. Mary is a family to us. Kinder grad was so sentimental. Faith formation was invaluable with…read morereligion classes and First Communion. The teachers support our children intimately and the environment provides so much security and growth. We have grown to love the other students and families. It's hard to describe how special this school is. We knew it the moment we stepped foot in the hallway. To hear children singing Christian songs in the morning, to morning prayer during AM assembly to children re-enacting Stations of the Cross. Every school mass has children leading. To hear their angelic voices in unity during mass is more precious than gold. Our children pray fervently and with full faith. I can't thank St. Mary enough for the intentional care each faculty and staff member pour into the children. I highly recommend St. Mary

When Student was 11 and got A's in her college courses. We had actually informed Student that since…read morethese were college courses (and no other options were available that semester with Covid) getting F or D's were perfectly Ok - even expected. When I saw she had near perfect scores, I was impressed, but I also felt burdened. I knew I had a child that was going to need excess resources and there wouldn't be a clear roadmap. Normally I would teach and coach her in math, chess, homework, computers, tech etc. But I feel the roles got reversed really early. I don't know if it's a national or international issue, Santa Clara or Gilroy, but I've seen a trend recently a lot of students have been leaving SC schools: eg students getting pulled out for homeschooling (so much so that CA agencies are aware of this trend). Other Asian families in the Gilroy area complained the local schools were racist, prejudiced. Unlike some nearby schools, whether it was a student like ours that needed special academic challenges, or other students with diverse or difficult backgrounds - (I want to make clear that most "trouble" students are actually extremely bright. I also think many, many students are capable of college level study early. Just the logistics can be really difficult) - St. Mary's welcomed both the students and families, parents into a large family. Now Student is 14 and mom purchased a brand new race motorcycle for her. She plans when she turns 15 to ride legally (as CA DMV allows). So it's really a matter of months that she'll have her own vehicle, and riding motorcycles on her own. There was this really narrow window of opportunity for teachers and staff, administration, other families and parents to help Student. St. Mary's really was (not just saying; actually) formed a village and gave the guidance, help, teaching, discipline, love and faith needed - really very badly needed - to send Student and Family in a good direction. It's difficult for me to recall names, but... Thank you Principal Ervin, Mrs. Dowd, Mr. Williams, Ms. Layman. Thank you staff Mrs. Emily, Mrs. Karen Moreno, Mrs. Tanaya. Dawn for constantly reaching out to us, late night urgent text msgs to get media / projects we missed; including Student in all the media presentations. (I'm getting help on this comment so will be adding names). Thank you St. Mary's staff holding up an entire school travel bus just to take Student on board. Any other school would have just left Student behind. We completely forgot about the huge school trip. With my background, I really thought I'd be the last person having no idea how to parent. God, Jesus operates in and within St. Marys. God makes good better, and those in difficulty - healed. We were so blessed to have their Love and Faith; we watched not just Student, but many students taken in - regardless of challenges - improved, cared for, and sent to High School with Blessings. I remember multiple times really wishing St. Marys had a high school. I felt really insecure about us having aged out / graduating from Marys. We really appreciated the positive feedback from staff, teachers of our parenting. I'm not an expert, but I feel a lot of students this age - they're happy to get the dress they want for Prom / dance, the top-of-the-line GoKart, the best cell phone. But often, Student was very very disappointed I couldn't quickly get her a McLaren W1, the HP4 race bike equipped with "straight Akrapovic pipes"... I had to write emails to Service departments asking them not to take instructions from Student, as she had a $32,000.00 "mod order w/ rush" she put in herself on my vehicle; calls emails from MacLaren on the "new vehicle" I was apparently about to purchase. (She has admits having all my banking info and self-taught computer programming; went from creating AI entities / avatars on Roblox straight to hacking my accounts). Even though I knew Student would need to get a career and make her own money one day to buy McLarens, I did often feel I couldn't give Student the resources she wanted to pursue her interests / passions. St. Marys had that Holy Spirit or just kind-heartedness to compliment us on ways they saw good parenting, and that gave us a real sense of relief and satisfaction. Especially for me, I'd never been a parent before. (There's no reddit for this kind of stuff). Ideally, God is always in our lives, whether we have everything figured out or not. If or when you can't handle things, you need God. Whether your student / kids are already good, or facing challenges, God is the best option and St. Marys has God's presence to improve the students and families that go there. I recommend you do everything possible to have your child at St. Marys. Divine guidance / school is available in Gilroy.

I'm not surprised by the extremely negative news about this school. I've talked to multiple parents…read morewho have pulled their kids out because the staff and administration... Well, you know what? Just google the school in the news. This isn't an issue between students. This is from repeated failures and a staff culture that is toxic. I've also heard parents complain of retaliation when they report problems with the school, as well as discrimination.

I actually used to go here it's beautiful here, it has a gymnasium, it make me feel like home.read more

The school of advancing technology. Very good teachers. But it could use some upgrades besides some…read moreportables and a fence. I went here in 1999, I think, it's been so long.

Registration for new students and not owning a house in Gilroy is probably harder than buying a…read morehouse. The amount of proof that you need to provide to register a student is unbelievable. If you rent or share housing with other family members and you are not the owner be aware they will make it almost impossible to register your student. I mean yes I understand some people lie but when I turned in the application for my kid there was enough evidence that this was my home but nope apparently that was not enough and they wanted more proof. Might as well they should start asking for a video recording of the last 24hrs of you living in your residence. Awful experience!

Horrible service! They want parents to volunteer and get involved but then you have to go through a…read morewhole process of tb testing and back ground checks. Which is fine... but then you have The district only offering the paperwork during one hour period on Tuesday and Wednesday! Umm hello, it's paperwork not like you guys are doing the actual test why is it so hard to pass out some forms?! Not to mention! I called for these set times etc, and was told they would be doing it all day Wednesday's, so I went in and was told "No that's incorrect" it's only in the morning. On top of that the lady I spoke to told me I only needed my ID, now I need to provide them my social security too! Y'all need to get more organized and get your information correct!

This is only for the All you can eat, cioppino crab feed fundraiser for the Gilroy HS Athletics…read moredepartment in May. http://www.gilroyhighschool.com/ciopinnofeed.htm $50 tix, can be purchased online and at the school. $5 discount per tix if you buy tables of 10. All you can eat cioppino crab feed, salad, garlic bread and red wine. Silent sports art auction. Purchase beer and soda. Dancing with a band. Crab feed located at Christopher Ranch, http://www.yelp.com/biz/christopher-a-and-d-ranch-gilroy#hrid:0ZXVbUA0J_WQKLwKZqyaSw/src:self seating in 4 barns, signage is poor on the location but once you find it, parking and the feeding is well organized. Noticed many police at the entrance of the ranch. The wine, bread, salad water replenishers are on the ball, crab refills can get slow, at least in barn 2 where we were located. You need to shout out and make a lot of noise to get the most attention to get refills on the cioppino crabs. The sauce is good. Saw some hard core crab people bring extra stuff like crab implements, crackers, scissors, mallets, lemon, pasta for the cioppino sauce, appetizers, desserts, baby wipes. We arrived at 6pm since we were lost for 30 minutes, line to get in was around 20 minutes, a garlic bread girl passed out bread to the people in line. Many were mad because of the poor signage and directions while waiting in line but soon turned into better humor when the line moved to get in. There was plenty of food. Was very well run for such a big event. Cleanup started around 8:30pm in barn 2 and dancing and the bar was open in Barn 1. Was quite fun, definately go with a crowd of fun friends because the diners are loud and raucous. Seating is family style, so you get to know your neighbors when you spew crab and cioppino juice on them. Where washable clothing. Gets chilly at night with the barn doors opens, bring a sweatshirt...yes it is a barn, they do leave the doors open!

Our daughter went here for half of freshman year. Not a good school, staff is horrible. It started…read morefrom the day we picked up our schedule, we did not know it was picture day- some lady comes up to my daughter with major bad attitude and tells her we were breaking dress code! We had just moved here, no one bothered to tell us it was going to be picture day. I called school to complain about this rag and it turns out she is the principles secretary but it only took me about 20 calls to get through! Next item my daughter was bullied by another girl, did the school do anything? No. my daughter was singled out as a "rich white girl" we aren't rich, we cashed out if our 1200 sq ft house in downtown San Jose to be here. We work!! Again school and their beloved principle did nothing. It has a huge racial divide. My daughter was offered drugs all of the time! The final straw was a teacher comes to class drunk. My daughter videoed the teacher and told me she was acting strange, well she was drunk! Again took forever to get ahold of principle. My bad I should've walked in to the school and grabbed the principle by the shirt but geese is rich who're people have to fricken work! School would be better if the drugs were gone and they really tried to change the racial issues. Come on it's 2017! So now my daughter lives with her grandma and goes to a great school on the peninsula and I get to basically miss her entire high school experience. Thanks shitty Gilroy and Mr. Awesome Principle. And seriously he is African American he should've been more privy to the racial issues, don't you think?

This is the hometown/country school that stands far and above any public or private school…read more Children are grouped by ability, not age. Because of this, every child has the opportunity to excel at his or her own pace. My kids are each doing work and progressing well above the typical grade level work, because of the way they are grouped. The staff here is fabulous. Each child is treated as as an individual. The children are taught that with actions come responsibility, and they are expected to be responsible for their actions. Classroom sizes are small (6-10), which greatly contributes to the positive leaning environment.

The headmistress of this school does not regularly pay her teachers. Please consider this when…read morethinking of sending your child(ren) and your money to the school.