St. Silvester (French: Saint-Silvestre; Arpitan: Sent-Savéthro [ʃɛ̃ ʃaˈviθʁo] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.

[5] The municipality is located in the Sense district, and consists of a number of hamlets.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure on a mount Vert a Church between two Trees proper.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (905 or 94.8%) as their first language, French is the second most common (41 or 4.3%) and Polish is the third with 2 people (0.2%).

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.7% of the vote.

[9] There were 509 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 7 or 18.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 13 or 34.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 15.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 6 or 15.8% were in education.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 811 or 84.9% were Roman Catholic, while 64 or 6.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs.

After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship.

[18] During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 87 students attending 4 classes in St. Silvester.

[11] As of 2000[update], there were 54 students from St. Silvester who attended schools outside the municipality.