Greetings! My name is Helene McNeilly and I’m so pleased to be St. Mary's Interim Principal for the remainder of this academic year while continuing as our fifth grade teacher. I am proud to be a part of the St. Mary staff - teaching, learning, and praying with our fifth grade students every day.  I joined this amazing team after retiring from public education serving as both teacher and administrator.  Some of my focus work centered around literacy/engagement strategies and in trauma-informed practices.  I’m a proud MSU alum for both bachelors and masters degree work.

My husband Dan, also an educator, and I have four pretty wonderful adult children - three sons and a daughter. I attended a little St. Mary school as a child, the ninth of ten kids,  and love being in this extraordinary Catholic school community.  Here we work together to strengthen and grow in our faith and in our academic pursuits, while lifting each other up every day.