St. Mary High School (Lake Leelanau, Michigan)

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St. Mary of the Assumtion School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Lake Leelanau, Michigan. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord.

1 History
2 School today
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

The school was established in 1887. The original two-story wooden building was destroyed by fire in the 1920s, and a two-story brick building was built in 1928. Based on the class photos dating to 1920 that hang on the first floor of the school, there has not been a graduating class of more than 25 students since. In the 1940s, the U.S. government was no longer to support private schools, and the St. Mary school community decided it to remain a private school.

Until the 1970s the main road through Lake Leelanau was Main Street. It ran past St. Mary school(In 2005 a gym was built on part of where it ran.) Then the road was moved to the north. This road in called M-204/Race/Duck Lake Road. The roads beginning and end are on to M-22. On in Suttons Bay, the other south of Leland.

[edit] School today

The school system includes grades pre-kindergarten to 12. The 2006-07 academic year included 250 students.

In addition to the school itself, the property includes a former convent now used as offices, St. Mary of the Assumption church, a fieldstone gymnasium built in 1920, and a modern gymnasium opened in 2005.

A former student of note is Fred Petrosky, a graduate of the school in the 1970s. He was a vice president of National Geographic Magazine for part of the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

A writer in residence was Kathleen Stocking, an author of several books on the area including Letters from the Leelanau. She taught at the school from 1994-96.