School Description
St. Mary's has a population of around 1400 students, from Form One to Form Six. When students reach F.4, they could choose between 3 arts classes with slightly different subjects and 3 science classes.
Most of St. Mary's students qualify for local universities, though a good number prefer to go abroad, mainly to UK, U.S.A., Canada and Australia, for further studies. St. Mary's Alumnae have been admitted to academic institutions such as Cambridge, Cornell, Columbia, Oxford, MIT, and Stanford. Most of them were or are scholarship holders, excelling in both curricular and extracurricular fields.
St. Mary's counts a total of 18 winners of the Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards, ranking third among all secondary schools in Hong Kong.
The school continues to keep and preserve its monumental looks with its long spiral staircase in the entrance to the main building. New buildings are continued to be built for the school's facilities.
St. Mary's is also renowned for its drama productions- like the recent ones e.g. Persephone, Mrs. Baggins, PanDora, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Other Side, The Disenchanted Fairy, Nefertiti and Psyche- where their drama teacher Mr. Geoff Oliver directs the play and writes the script while the students build the set, compose the songs, produce the props and help with the choreography.
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