Mercy Health Pathways High School

MESA has spent the past year engaged in an intensive planning and design process for the establishment of Mercy Health Pathways Junior/Senior High School (or “Mercy Health Pathways” as working title) – a grades 7-12 model anchored in sequenced health sciences pathways – that would help reset the life trajectories of students and families who need this school the most. Mercy Health Pathways is guided by both the spiritual (shaping students to hear and to live the call of the Gospel), and the practical (providing students with a clear path to a living wage upon graduation). To that end, the school will prepare historically marginalized students for both the health sciences workforce and post-secondary educational success, with an innovative programmatic arc of the student experience. Furthermore, Mercy Health Pathways will launch in a state – Ohio or Florida – with a robust public voucher program to make this education both accessible for students and sustainable for the new institution.