Getting Ready
Information to help you navigate and prepare for the school year.
Important Updates and Deadlines:
- 2025-2026 Essential Dates Calendar *Updated 3.10.2025
- April 21: Students receive their official St. Mark's School email address and access instructions. Once these email addresses are created, the School will no longer send emails to the email address they used to apply to St. Mark's.
- April 21: Students and families receive instructions on how to access Blackbaud and be provided their Blackbaud IDs (BBID). Blackbaud will be used for course registration, schedules, and grades.
- April 23: Course requests and language placement testing begins
- May 5: Math placement testing begins
- May 7: Course requests and language placement testing deadline
- May 16: Math placement testing ends
- Coming soon: Health and insurance forms
- Coming soon: New Student Roommate Survey
- Coming soon: Athletics Varsity Preseason details (invitation sent via email.)
- Coming soon: Family Information Form submissions (link sent via email.)
Important Information
Packing List
Over-the-counter medications, such as Tylenol and Ibuprofen, may be kept in student rooms. Cough syrup is not allowed in the rooms but is available at Health Services. All prescription medications must remain at Health Services for distribution by the nurses.
House (Dorm) Room
- bedspread/comforter blanket
- bed linens (beds are U.S. standard twin size: 39" x 75" or 96.5cm x 190.5 cm)
- pillow
- towels
- hangers
- laundry basket
- alarm clock
- desk light (no bulbs exceeding 60 watts or halogen lamps)
- power strip with surge protector
- plastic bucket for toiletries
- key chain
Academic
- notebooks
- highlighter
- pens/pencils
- computer
- TI-83 Plus or TI-84 Plus* calculator**
*We do not recommend the TI-Nspire calculator for our classes.
**Please note: Students who are enrolled in Algebra I or Geometry are not required to bring a TI calculator.
Sports
- sweatshirt/pants
- running shoes
- cleats (for soccer, field hockey, football)
- water bottle
- sport-specific equipment
Student Laundry
St. Mark’s School works with E&R Laundry to provide laundry services to all interested students to better meet our community’s needs.
E&R offers a variety of plan options to maximize your student’s available free time and promote a clean and healthy dorm room.
Register at trycampuslaundry.com or call 800.243.7789 for an early registration discount.
Laundry machines are also available to students in each house. There is no charge to use the in-house machines.
Lion Card
Incoming families received an email over the summer with registration details. Lion Cards will be given to new students at Orientation.
The Lion Card is the official identification card for all students. The Lion Card comes with a prepaid spending account feature called Lion Cash that are the student incidental accounts. Students can use their card to buy textbooks and other items from the bookstore as well as eat at the Lions' Den. There are no fees to use the Lion Card and you can add as much value to your card as you would like.
Private Music Lessons
Fifteen professional musicians teach and coach in the St. Mark’s Music program. Typically, over sixty students participate in our private music lesson program. Lessons are offered for a fee on a non-credit basis, or for credit as part of the Music Studio course. Students may also seek permission to take lessons as an independent study project or in lieu of sports.
Instruction is offered in these areas:
- Keyboard — piano (classical, jazz, pop), classical pipe organ
- Voice — (all styles)
- Strings — violin, viola, cello, bass, Chinese guzheng
- Guitar — acoustic, electric, bass
- Winds — flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon
- Brass — trumpet, trombone, French horn
- Percussion — timpani, drum set, ethnic drumming
Helpful Contacts
Athletics
Lauren Ames
Titles:
Director of Athletics, Head Varsity Girls' Soccer Coach
Departments:
Athletics, Senior Administrative Team, Orientation
Email:
Academics
Kinne McBride
Titles:
Academic Dean, Assistant Head of School, Mathematics Department Faculty
Departments:
Mathematics, Academics, Senior Administrative Team, Dean of Academics Office
Email:
Casey Bates '09
Titles:
Associate Dean of Academics, Academic Scheduler, English Department Faculty
Departments:
English, Academics, Dean of Academics Office
Email:
Sarah Eslick
Titles:
Director of Academic Support, Associate Director of The Burgess Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Departments:
Academics, The Burgess Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Dean of Academics Office
Email:
Colleen Worrell
Titles:
Director of The Burgess Center, Religion Department Faculty
Departments:
Academics, Religion, The Burgess Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Dean of Academics Office
Email:
Business Office
Elizabeth Dionne
Titles:
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Administrative Team
Departments:
Business Office, Senior Administrative Team, Trustee Portal View
Email:
Kristi Jacobi
Titles:
Director of Operations, Associate Director of Auxiliary Programs
Departments:
Business Office
Email:
Jennifer Levine
Titles:
Director of Dining, FLIK
Departments:
Business Office, Dining Services
Email:
Liz MacArthur
Titles:
Accounts Receivable & Business Office Operations Manager, Reception Manager
Departments:
Business Office
Email:
Community & Equity Affairs
Rick DaSilva
Titles:
Director of Community and Equity Affairs, Interim Dean of Students
Departments:
Community and Equity Affairs, Senior Administrative Team
Email:
Joe Alford Jr.
Titles:
Associate Director of Admission for Equity and Inclusion, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Admission
Departments:
Admission, Community and Equity Affairs
Email:
Mary Ann Ciampa
Titles:
Operations Manager for Global Citizenship, Assistant to the Director of Community and Equity Affairs
Departments:
Community and Equity Affairs, Global Citizenship
Email:
Orlando Patterson
Titles:
Associate Director of Community and Equity Affairs, Recruitment Operations Coordinator
Departments:
Community and Equity Affairs, Dean of Faculty Office
Email:
Looking for more information on Community & Equity at St. Mark's? Select this link.
Student Engagement
Veronica Barila
Titles:
School Counselor
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services, Orientation
Email:
Margaret (Maggie) Caron
Titles:
Associate Dean of Students, Director of Residential Life
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Orientation
Email:
Carl Corazzini
Titles:
Director of Wellness, History and Social Sciences Department Faculty, Head Varsity Boys' Hockey Coach
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, History and Social Sciences, Orientation, Wellness
Email:
Caitlin Kosow
Titles:
Director of Student Life, Assistant Dean of Students
Departments:
Dean of Students Office
Email:
Mike Marinella ’08
Titles:
Leader of Educational and Operational Support, Interim Assistant Director of Athletics
Departments:
Dean of Students Office
Email:
Lauren Martin '85
Titles:
Community Wellness Educator
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Orientation, Wellness
Email:
Adria Pavletic
Titles:
Director of Health Services
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services
Email:
Jennifer Taylor
Titles:
Director of Counseling Services
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services, Orientation
Email:
Health Services
Adria Pavletic
Titles:
Director of Health Services
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services
Email:
Jennifer Taylor
Titles:
Director of Counseling Services
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services, Orientation
Email:
Veronica Barila
Titles:
School Counselor
Departments:
Dean of Students Office, Health Services, Orientation
Email:
