Tri-School Program

Classes. . . dances . . . retreats . . . sports practices . . . musical . . . chorus . . .band. . . student government activities . . . Serra Fashion Show . . .Walk for Justice . . . community service .  . . . Cultural Awareness Day . . . new friends and much more!

Research documents the positive effects of single gender education. Experience teaches us that we must also educate the "whole person"-- mind, heart, body, and soul. The Tri-School Program was established in 1986 with this holistic approach in mind. Our efforts allow students to "enjoy the best of both worlds" by allowing our schools to remain single gender while providing students significant coeducational opportunities in all areas of school life.

A single gender school provides students with the time and space needed to grow academically and as individuals. Creating a sense of community that allows students to develop life-long friendships is also a major benefit of single gender education.
It is also important for teenagers to have significant coeducational opportunities so they may grow in "wisdom, age and grace." The Tri-School Program provides a variety of coeducational experiences that help our young men and women students to interact with each other in a healthy, respectful, and appropriate manner.

It is the goal of Mercy, Notre Dame and Junipero Serra to form individuals who live the Christian ideal. Our collaboration allows each school to provide the benefits of single gender education in a way that respects its particular history, tradition, mission and ethos, while at the same time offering the benefits of coeducational experiences. To this end we are committed to:

• Providing courses on each campus in which student from each school can learn together.
• Providing a wide variety of opportunities for students to develop spiritually by providing coeducational retreats, prayer services and service opportunities.
• Providing a wide variety of coeducational extracurricular activities to all students to develop healthy relationships that are marked by respect and constructive communication.