Directions & Transportation
Campus Location and Environment
Saint Mary’s park-like campus is located in North Berkeley and occupies a beautiful 13-acre site tucked inside of a quiet residential neighborhood, making school a safe and easily accessible place for students and their families. Saint Mary's is committed to providing students with a clean, safe learning environment. Saint Mary's is committed to providing students with a clean, safe learning environment.
The campus layout is a balance of formal and natural geometry with the center of campus characterized by an academic quadrangle. Throughout the course of the day, students move between several classroom buildings, giving them sense of life on a small college campus. Each building on our campus represents the love and appreciation that graduates and friends feel for Saint Mary’s. Students can relax on these incredible grounds while eating their lunch, socializing with their friends, or just enjoying the beautiful sites and sounds at Peralta Park. Certain campus viewpoints feature impressive views of the San Francisco Bay, the Berkeley hills, and the U.C. Berkeley campus.
Directions to Saint Mary’s College High School
Coming from Hwy 80 North
Take Hwy 80 southbound towards Berkeley
Take the Gilman Street Exit
Turn left onto Gilman Street
Take Gilman Street for 1.3 miles
Turn left on Hopkins Street
Go ½ block and turn left again on Albina Avenue
Albina Avenue leads directly into our parking lot
Take Hwy 80 northhbound towards
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Go ½ block and turn left again on
Albina Avenue leads directly into our parking lot
Saint Mary’s Transportation Information 2008-2009
Saint Mary’s actively promotes and encourages our students to organize carpools, ride bikes, or utilize public transportation, such as AC Transit or BART to get to and from school.The school has several secure bike racks for students on campus.
AC Transit Bus Service:
Line 9
Line 52 Cedar
Line 688
On school days, Saint Mary's and AC Transit have arranged for dedicated bus service that travels directly to Saint Mary's from the Lake Merritt area. Bus Route #688 operates between
For more information, please visit the AC Transit website at www.actransit.org and select ‘Rider Info’, scroll down the menu on the left side to ‘Buses to Schools’, then ‘Private Schools’, and select ‘St. Mary’s
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART):
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Carpools and Parking Permits
Sign-ups for carpooling and parking permits for student-driven automobiles are made available in the summer mailing packet. A carpool list will be generated and families are able to make their own carpool arrangements within a given geographic area. In addition, students will have an opportunity to apply for a parking permit on and off campus. These permits are issued with the following priority ranking in mind: carpoolers, seniors, juniors.
Campus Updates
There are exciting things happening at Saint Marys! Saint Mary’s recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a major renovation of the athletic field complex in May, 2008. Our track and field was state-of-the-art when it was built thirty years ago, but replacing our existing facility with a new track and a synthetic all-weather surface field, will greatly improve the training and game environment for our athletes to continue their success in the BSAL League, North Coast Section, and State competition. “Quality facilities communicate high expectations, both to the students with us today and to those who will consider Saint Mary’s for their high school education in the future...Our students need and deserve a facility that will, as the current facility did for so many of us…inspire them to reach for excellence.” This renovation field project will transform the athletic experience at Saint Mary’s for all students.
The field project has been named “