Maur Hill–Mount Academy

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Maur Hill–Mount Academy
Address
1000 Green Street Atchison , (Atchison County) , Kansas 66002 United States
Coordinates	39°32′44.4″N 95°7′37″W / 39.545667°N 95.12694°W / 39.545667; -95.12694
Information
Type	Private, Day & Boarding School
Motto	Ora Et Labora (Pray and work)
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic, Benedictine
Established	1863 (Mount) 1919 (Maur Hill)
President	David Trotter
Principal	Cameron Carlson[2]
Chaplain	Fr. Jeremy Heppler (St. Benedict's Abbey)
Grades	9–12
Gender	Coeducational
Average class size	15
Student to teacher ratio	9:1
Campus size	90 acres
Color(s)	Black, Navy Blue and Gold
Athletics conference	Northeast Kansas League [1]
Mascot	Raven
Accreditation	AdvancED
Tuition	$22,250 (5-Day Boarder) $26,750 (7-Day Boarder); $34,450 (International)
Website	mh-ma.com

Maur Hill–Mount Academy is a coed Catholic, college prep, boarding high school in Atchison, Kansas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and sponsored by the St. Benedict's Abbey (monastery) and Mount St. Scholastica (convent) in Atchison, KS.^{[citation needed]} It became Maur Hill–Mount Academy with the merger of the two long established schools: Maur Hill Prep School (1919) was an all-boys school and Mount St. Scholastica Academy (1863), an all-girls school.

The student population is around 190-220 students (about 80-90 boarding and 100-120 day students from the surrounding area. Boarding students attend from many states across the US and approximately 50 of the boarding students are international students.^{[citation needed]}

Regular high school courses, honors courses, college courses and AP courses are all available. Upper-level students also are able to take college courses at Benedictine College. The school accepts all students, regardless of gender or sexual identity.^{[citation needed]}

It is accredited by AdvancED and maintains memberships or association in the Secondary School Admission Test Board, Catholic Boarding School Association, Small Boarding School Association, the Cardinal Newman Society, and the National Catholic Education Association.^{[citation needed]}

Although an independent school with primary sponsorship from St. Benedict's Abbey and the Mount St. Scholastica Monastery, it is recognized and maintains connection with Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.^[3]

The school competes athletically and academically as a member of the nine-school Northeast Kansas League.^[1]

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (May 2024)

• Mike Haverty (Maur Hill Prep School, 1962) – former president and CEO of Kansas City Southern Railway
• Mike Kuckelman (Maur Hill Prep School, ????) – Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party
• Deran Sarafian (Maur Hill Prep School, 1975) – television producer and director, involved in CSI, House M.D., and Lost

• School Website