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School Communications to Comcast Email Subscribers

We recently learned that anyone with a comcast.net email address may be having trouble receiving emails through our messaging provider. At this time, our mail provider and Comcast are working together to implement a fix for this issue. You may view all recent Weekly Update email in our archive here.

School Calendar

Please find the newly released 2024-2025 Academic Year  School Calendar. All dates and times are subject to change. This includes key dates to best plan for a successful school year.

Re-enrollment Time

Families returning to the Mount for the 2024-2025 school year will receive a mailed enrollment agreement packet in the upcoming weeks. If your student will be returning, we ask that by April 1, 2024, you make your deposit via Blackbaud Tuition Management and return a signed copy of the enrollment agreement to  reenroll@msjacad.org  or to the Enrollment Office. 

Why MSJA?

Program Highlights

Limitless Learning

The academic excellence that the Mount is known for extends throughout the school in all we do. Young women at the Mount are consistently engaged in co-curricular programming—clubs, student activities and societies span the full range of student interest and inspire new passions from service organizations and performance groups to academic interest clubs such as Robotics, honor societies, and much more. The Mount Fine Arts program teaches technique and skill while allowing each students to discover their own uniquely creative voice and our acclaimed Mount Athletics program offers 13 sports that instill qualities of leadership, confidence, sisterhood and strength.

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Community Bonds Led by Faith

Following the Sisters of Saint Joseph tradition, students are unifiers who support their peers in all their endeavors. The Mount is a strong and resilient community built with active inclusive love. Daily Advisory time with adult and student leaders provides a space where there is an intentional focus on Academics, Mission, Community and Clubs. Students attend mission-focused and faith-centered retreats throughout their years at the Mount and engage in intentional and engaging Campus Ministry program that embraces all and leads our young women to Serve the Dear Neighbor. 

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Robust Academics

At the Mount, our dedicated faculty use their expertise and experience in their disciplines to create lasting and limitless learning in the classroom and beyond. Our college-style block schedule with 80 minute classes, provides collaborative, impactful, engaging and flexible teaching and learning for our students and educators. Curricular features such as our Women as Founders Seminar, a mission-aligned course where students select a research project centered around a social issue of personal significance, and an integrated math and science curriculum where teachers collaborate to effectively teach the subjects with an interdisciplinary approach allow for specialized and personalized schedules. We also offer unique courses such as Principles of Engineering and Design, Print and Broadcast Journalism courses and are one of a few schools nationwide that offer both AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science.

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A Foundation for Success

Students at the Mount flourish in a learning community that challenges and inspires young women to dream big and journey deep, to lead with compassion and to seek God in themselves and others. Our Learning Team serves a range of learners with research-based, inclusive methods to help with time management and build lifelong strategies and skills. Our College Counseling Program helps students in grades 10-12 explore their passions and goals in order to find a right-fit institution of higher learning and our School Counselors partner with students one-on-one from the first to their last days of their Mount experience to focus on holistic health and wellness.Young women at the Mount develop skills around self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship building and responsible decision-making.

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By the Numbers

the Mount at a Glance

68

zip codes from which 478 students from 31 school districts and 90 different schools come to the Mount

17

PIAA District I Championships in Golf, Basketball, Field Hockey, and Lacrosse 

78

Acre campus

2.95M

Scholarships for the Class of 2023

100%

of MSJA graduates attend post-secondary institutions

50+

Clubs and activities

Our Community

Our Stories

Pamela Hunt Gwaltney '79

2023 Alumnae Hall of Fame Recipient

"I left the Mount as a self-aware, confident young woman: ready for college. I returned many years later with a heart to serve. I hope that the work I am doing on the Mount's Board and in my profession proves valuable in the long term and that seeds I have sown will continue to sow, reap a bountiful harvest."

 

Grace O'Brien '23

Valedictorian, Class of 2023

"During the past four years, our teachers have educated us and prepared us for our future through teaching us how to strive for "excellence tempered by gentleness and compassion" and how to find our inner confidence."

Ella Woehlcke '24

Track & Field/ Cross Country Student-Athlete, Class of 2024

2x 800 Meter State Runner Up, 3x AACA XC Champ, District 1 Champion XC 2022, and District 1 Champion 1600 Meters 2022

“The culture and environment provided by the Mount has given me the opportunity to grow my confidence as a young woman and value the principles of support and collaboration from my classmates and teammates. The mission of the Mount community has developed in me a sense of leadership that will prepare me for any future challenges and the eagerness to constantly strive for more while in the classroom and on the track.”

 

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