Welcome to Mercy High School
Baltimore

Dear Friend:

Welcome to Mercy High School, Baltimore — a secondary school educating young women in the tradition of Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy. Opened in 1960, Mercy High School continues the long history of Mercy education in Baltimore first established at Mount Saint Agnes in 1867.

Part of a network of over 40 Mercy secondary schools located in twenty states in the continental United States and six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mercy Baltimore is also linked with Mercy secondary schools in other parts of the world, most notably in Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand . As in all these schools, Mercy Baltimore is committed to educating young women of confidence and competence, with belief in their power to make a difference in the world as women of faith, justice and compassion.

We hope your visit to our website will be enjoyable as well as informative. Please know that we would be pleased to welcome you warmly to our campus as well.

Sincerely,

Sr. Carol E. Wheeler, RSM
President/Principal

Sr. Carol E. Wheeler, RSM, a Sister of Mercy since 1959, received her B.A. in English from Maryville College of the Sacred Heart (now Maryville University), St. Louis, Missouri, holds an M.A. in philosophy from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., an M.A. in education and a Certificate of Advanced Study in philosophy of education from The University of Chicago.

President/Principal of Mercy Baltimore since 1977, Sr. Carol was founding president of the Mercy Secondary Education Association in the U.S. In 1988-89, she spent a sabbatical year in the Research Fellows Program at the Yale University Divinity School . In September 1998, she was a keynote speaker at the Australia/New Zealand Mercy Secondary Education Conference. Inspired by the striking similarity in spirit, values and emphases in these schools, she returned to New Zealand from December 1999 to mid-April 2000 as a visiting educator in five NZ Mercy secondary schools . In addition to her long-standing commitment to the education of young women, Sr. Carol's interests also include theology, ethics, film, music and travel.