History
In 1855, Mother Baptist Russell and the Sisters of Mercy opened a night school for adults on Vallejo Street in San Francisco. The late auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco James Thomas O'Dowd, who was then the Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools, requested that the Sisters of Mercy provide a secondary school for the Catholic girls in the Sunset, Lakeside, and Park Merced districts. As a result, Mercy High School was opened on September 3, 1952 with a class of 199 freshmen in a partially completed building. Nearly two years later, the original building was completed in 1954.
On June 11, 1956, a class of 173 seniors received diplomas and became the first graduating class of Mercy High School. The achievement of Mercy's first graduating class placed the high school on the list of secondary schools accredited by the University of California. In 1958, Mercy High School became a charter member among schools accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association. In 1964, it was accredited by the newly formed Secondary Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The school was also a member of the National Catholic Educational Association. [3]
In January 2020, the school announced that it would close at the end of the 2019–2020 school year, citing decreased enrollment figures, a shrinking endowment, and the high cost of living in San Francisco that made private school tuition difficult to afford for many families. [4] [5]
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