Campaign Brochure

BUILDING

THE DREAM

A Capital Campaign for Mercy High School, Burlingame Athletic & Student Life Center

EMPOWER WOMEN Mercy High School, Burlingame is in the quiet phase of the Building the Dream campaign to build an Athletic and Student Life Center on campus.

Mercy is the only school of the 14 high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco that does not have its own indoor space for athletics and schoolwide gatherings.

1931

42

18

Year Established

AP & Honors

Average Class

Classes

Size

10 : 1

$2 Million

Student to

Awarded to Students

Teacher Ratio

for Financial Aid

It is time to create a campus facility that will allow our community to realize its full potential and support our students in their journeys of self-confidence and growth. The campaign is a defining moment for Mercy. It will secure our legacy of educating young women while enabling them to reach new heights beyond the classroom. In fulfilling this mission, the Center will allow us to further empower women leaders to be the problem solvers of tomorrow.

14

23

Different

Different

Sports

Teams

Opportunities

400

22

100%

Students

Creative

Extra-Curricular

Courses

Participation

400+ Leadership

COMMUNITY VALUE We look forward to building a space that will bring our students, staff, faculty, parents and alumnae together that will reflect the beauty of our historic “oak-clad acres” and honor the deep sense of community of Mercy High School, Burlingame.

01

02

A place to call “home” that

Seating for 500, allowing

promotes collaboration,

on campus liturgies, assemblies

innovation and creativity

and events

05

06

Saves $60,000+ annually in

Increased participation in

athletic space rentals and

student activities and athletics

150+ hours spent

to support 23 teams

coordinating transportation

IMPACT

03

04

Increased enrollment and

Facilities for

retention because of

conditioning, practices and

new and improved facilities

Health and Wellness for all students and athletic teams

07

08

Home court

Upgraded pool to meet

advantage

regulations for

for athletics

swimming and water polo

THE G

$27 M

$9.5 MILLION

$17.5 MILLION

GOAL

MILLION

N COMMITTED

N TO RAISE

ABOUT US Founded by the Sisters of

action and leadership in

Mercy in 1931, Mercy High

their communities. Mercy’s

School, Burlingame is driven

vision of women’s leadership

by a clear mission: to provide a

is deeply informed by the

rigorous Catholic education that

experiences of our alumnae, who

prepares young women to lead

credit their Mercy experience with

with compassion and strive for

giving them the capacities crucial

excellence. Since its founding,

to their success: intellectual

more than 8,000 young women

curiosity, critical thinking,

have graduated from Mercy with

commitment to social justice

a powerful sense of self that

and the self-confidence to step

provides a foundation for elective

forward with conviction.

“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”

Catherine McAuley Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy

Mercy High School 2750 Adeline Drive • Burlingame, CA 94010 www.mercyhsb.com/about/building-the-dream 650.762.1190