Background

HISTORY

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School has served the parish community since 1933. We welcome students entering Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. Our school has been staffed by the Benedictine Sisters and since 1966 by the Sisters Servants of the Blessed Sacrament and dedicated lay teachers. School families, parishioners, and friends have worked together to maintain OLMCS as one of the finest elementary schools in the Diocese of San Diego.

MISSION STATEMENT

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, through a dedicated faculty, staff, and parent community, strives to create an atmosphere of faith, love, and respect, which fosters learning and enables students to make right choices and meaningful contributions to society.

PHILOSOPHY

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School is a child centered Christian community in which each member is encouraged to acquire knowledge, skills, and values in order to serve God, family, and society.

The administration and staff, in partnership with the parents who are the primary educators of their children, are committed to assisting students in developing their full potential through a program that stimulates spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional and physical development; in an atmosphere of faith, love, and community.

Outstanding Academic Environment

Challenging curriculum in Math, Science and Health, Social Studies, Language Arts (Includes Reading and Literature, English, Phonics, Listening, Speaking, Handwriting, Composition and Reference Skills).

Physical Education.

Weekly Art classes.

Music classes and piano lab ranks with high school labs.

Integrated Technology Lab and Learning Center.

Science Lab ranks with high school labs; Students in grades 6-8 scheduled into lab equipped for experiments appropriate for the middle school program.

Educational environment is positive, nurturing, interactive and challenging.

Students master the basics while pursuing higher level thinking skills.

Nurturing Spiritual Environment

A Christian environment that provides the spiritual development of the student and nurtures a personal relationship with Christ.

Daily religious instruction which encompasses key components of our faith:

Creed : what we believe

Sacraments : how we celebrate

Morality : how we live

Ongoing multiple expressions of a Catholic's faith-filled life through:

Schoolwide and grade level celebrations of the Eucharist

Paraliturgies, Living Rosary, Stations of the Cross, May Crowning

Class retreat experiences

Community outreach projects

Christian Service Hours

Sacramental preparation