Directions & Transportation
Campus Location and Environment
Saint Mary’s beautiful, park-like campus is located in North Berkeley and occupies a 13 acre site tucked inside of a quiet residential neighborhood, making school a safe and easily accessible place for students and their families. The campus layout is a balance of formal and natural geometry with the center of campus characterized by an academic quadrangle in which students move between several classroom buildings during the course of the day, similar to life on a small college campus. Throughout our history, the generosity of the Christian Brothers, alumni and friends of Saint Mary’s have provided resources to update our facilities. Each building on our campus represents the love and appreciation that graduates and friends feel for Saint Mary’s. Students relax on these incredible grounds while eating their lunch, socializing with their friends, or just enjoying the beautiful sites and sounds at Peralta Park. The campus features impressive views of the San Francisco Bay, the Berkeley hills, and the U.C. Berkeley campus. Saint Mary's is committed to providing students with a clean, safe learning environment.
Directions to Saint Mary’s College High School
Coming from Hwy 80 North
Turn left onto Gilman Street
Take Gilman Street for 1.3 miles
Turn left on
Go ½ block and turn left again on
Albina Avenue leads directly into our parking lot.
Coming from Hwy 80 South
Take Hwy 80 northhbound towards
Take the
Turn right onto
Take
Turn left on
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 encourages our students to ride bikes or take public transportation to and from school. We have secure bike racks for students on campus.
AC Transit Bus Service:
Line 9
Line 52 Cedar
Line 688
On school days, AC Transit Bus Route #688 is a dedicated bus route service that provides direct transport to Saint Mary’s originating at
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):
Saint Mary’s
Carpools and Parking Permits
Sign-ups for carpooling and parking permits are made available in the summer mailing packet. A carpool list will be generated and families make their own carpool arrangements within a given geographic area. In addition, students have an opportunity to apply for a parking permit on 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 on campus. 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 environment for our athletes to continue their league, North Coast Section, and State successes. “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 project will transform the athletic experience at Saint Mary’s for all students. Groundbreaking for this major project took place on May 16, 2008.
The project has been named “