Southern Tier Catholic School is a non-profit, Catholic Elementary School. Located in downtown Olean, New York, Southern Tier Catholic provides instruction for pre-K through eighth grade. STCS is committed to a Catholic tradition that teaches reverence, respect and responsibility. Both our faculty and students have the highest standards of learning. We do this by combining the New York State based curriculum along with the diocese of Buffalo standards of curriculum. Southern Tier Catholic School incorporates a values-based, moral and ethical foundation beginning in Pre-K, which informs even the most modern of technologies. STCS teachers focus on the joy of learning and emphasize a commitment to academic standards of excellence, to the best of each students ability.