St Mary's School is a private English medium, Anglican and boarding school for girls situated in the suburb of Waverley in Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa, it is one of the top and most academic schools in Gauteng.
St Mary's consists of four houses, each with a different colour, which compete in inter-house events such as hockey, tennis, swimming, athletics, squash, music, debating and theatre.
Junior school houses
Hares (yellow)
Zebras (red)
Springboks (green)
Lions (blue)
Pupils in grade 0 are placed in houses in the first term and stay through grade 7.
High school houses
Clayton (yellow)
Furse (red)
Karney (green)
Phelps (blue)
The house system was introduced in 1934 and students wear their house badges on their blazers with pride. The houses are named after bishops of Johannesburg; Geoffrey Clayton 1934-1949 and Arthur Karney 1922–1933; bishop of Pretoria, Michael Furse 1909–1920 and archbishop of Cape Town, Francis Phelps 1931–1938.[citation needed]
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