This campaign is the result of our Strategic Plan 2017-22, which was the product of a year of work by a dedicated committee. The Plan and its bold vision for Cathedral's future was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees in 2017. The Strategic Plan centered on three major themes: (1) maintaining our leadership in boys’ education so that we prepare boys for success in high school and in an increasingly complicated world; (2) fostering a community that attracts and supports talented educators and staff and that remains accessible to all qualified students; and (3) improving the use of learning space to support innovative educational approaches that prepare our students for success and leadership in the world.

 

In the past two years, we have made tremendous progress on all of these goals. We have implemented a Co-Lead teaching model in the Lower School, established an endowed master teaching chair to support teaching excellence, and enhanced staff salary and benefits to attract and maintain the finest professional staff. In addition, student diversity has increased, and we have launched a scholarship program designed to attract high-achieving, underrepresented students to our middle school. Just this past summer, we created a state-of-the-art Upper School science suite, which we hope you all have been able to visit.

 

To date, we have raised over $16 million—the largest fundraising effort in Cathedral School's history. 

 

Now that construction is drawing near, we are launching the Public Phase of the Fulfilling the Strategic Vision campaign. While we have accomplished so much to date, we still have to raise nearly $5 million in the next six months in order to begin construction.

With deepest appreciation,

 

Burns Jones
Headmaster