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
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$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