South Jersey Catholic Schools is excited to announce that Melissa Brino, vice principal and eighth-grade teacher at St. Mary School, Williamstown, has been named the 2026 New Jersey Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year by the New Jersey Council for American Private Education (NJCAPE).
Brino has been an educator for 25 years, with the last 10 years as a Catholic school educator in the Diocese of Camden. She has been at St. Mary School since 2017.
“Growing up ensconced in the Church, and Catholic school that tied the faith together, with Mass and the sacraments … I always knew I was going to be in Catholic education,” Brino said to the Catholic Star Herald.
Congratulations on this well-deserved award, Ms. Brino!
Read the Catholic Star Herald article here: https://catholicstarherald.org/saint-mary-school-vice…/