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Many The Gifts

Many the Gifts, Carondelet’s annual report, honors our donor community of parents, alumnae, and friends whose philanthropy helps set Carondelet apart. Through your collective generosity and leadership, Carondelet has the resources to help shape the lives of our students on campus and beyond.

Financial Annual Report

The dedicated partnership of our community of supporters resulted in an exceptional year. Our remarkable students built resiliency, stayed informed, embraced change, and led with their signature heart, faith, courage, and excellence. Your generosity enabled us to further enhance our tuition assistance offerings and continue to level the playing field for the young women of Carondelet. And because of your investments, our Student Life, Campus Ministry, Educational Support, College Counselors, and Wellness Team continue to provide crucial resources for students’ academic, spiritual, and social-emotional journeys. These are just a handful of the countless resources—staff, classes, programs, supplies, and initiatives—that we provide, thanks to you.

 

Your philanthropic support, volunteer efforts, and engagement with school life during the 2024-2025 year helped raise over $2M in contributed income, 162% of our goal. This success was driven by creative fundraising efforts—dynamic events, annual sponsorship opportunities, and targeted initiatives—and this community’s sustained responsiveness to the needs of the times. Our supporters rose to the occasion to keep Carondelet on the cutting edge of whole-person secondary education and used philanthropy to maintain the exceptional experience our students and their families expect and deserve.

We also raised an additional $1.5M for our Power of Her Campaign. This fundraising effort, which ran the duration of the 2024-25 fiscal year, helped launch construction and propel the project into its final stages.

This level of contributed income speaks to the collective vote of confidence our community has in our mission and vision. The challenges incumbent in fundraising persist, and we consistently must do more with less. More tax-deductible support is needed to maintain the programs we have and more is needed to preserve the ambitious trajectory we have established on behalf of our students. We are approximately 90% reliant on tuition income, and depend on your continued investment to close this gap each year. Our generous community of donors helps address this shortfall with philanthropic contributions in lieu of tuition increases.

The impact of your giving is demonstrated every day through a variety of experiences and accomplishments. There are many examples that showcase our achievements this past academic year. It’s far from an exhaustive list, as there are simply too many things that happen during the course of a year to spotlight everything. We are proud of our students, faculty, staff, alumnae, and parents and humbled to share the following summary.

Financial Aid

Approximately 51% of Carondelet students receive some form of financial aid, including $2.67 million in need-based grants and merit awards.

Academics

Our exceptional faculty continue to create and deliver innovative, interdisciplinary programs that differentiate our graduates from all other high school students. As a college preparatory school, we prepare students for a traditional learning environment where standardized test scores and AP classes are critical to the college admissions process and offer real-world experiences and critical thinking skills that transcend secondary education.

  • Average class size: 22
  • 16:1 student to faculty ratio
  • 99% of graduates attended college
  • AP Exams - Carondelet’s average passing rate was 84% compared to a National Average of 73%
  • Standardized test scores were higher than the national average across the board on both the ACT and SAT.
    • ACT-29% above the national average
    • SAT-14% higher in math, 20% higher in English than the national average

The Carondelet College Counseling department provides current information on the changing landscape of college admissions. Our college counselors provide a comprehensive and personalized four-year approach to the college admissions process. This includes college application boot camps for juniors and rising seniors, course selection meetings, individual meetings about college, and visits by more than 100 colleges to Carondelet to recruit our students.

The University of California campuses, especially UC Berkeley and UCLA, remain highly selective. However, in 2024, Carondelet students were admitted at rates higher than the state average. For UC Berkeley, where the state average admission rate was 15%, Carondelet students achieved an 18% admit rate. For UCLA, with a state average of 9%, Carondelet students had a 14% acceptance rate. This reflects the strength of our students’ performance in rigorous coursework and extracurricular activities, positioning them as competitive applicants within the UC system.

Athletics

Approximately 59% students participated in Cougar athletics during the 2024-2025 school year.

  • Across all sports, Carondelet had 19 First Team athletes, 14 Second Team athletes, one Player of the Year, one Offensive Player of the Year, two Defensive Players of the Year, and one Honorable Mention.
  • Carondelet championship titles consisted of four league championships, one NCS championship, one NorCal Championship, and one State Championship team.

All Varsity Carondelet Sports earned a GPA of 3.88 and above (including club sports).

  • Basketball (3.9), Beach Volleyball (4.0), Cross Country (4.2), Dance (3.9), Diving (4.1), Golf (4.0), Lacrosse (3.9), Rugby (3.8), Sideline Cheer (3.8), Soccer (3.9), Softball (4.1), Stunt (3.9), Swimming (4.0), Tennis (4.1), Track and Field (4.0), Volleyball (4.0), and Water Polo (4.3).

Student Life

  • Student Recognition events were refreshed this year in light of the Carondelet Mission of developing young women of heart, faith, courage, and excellence. Campus Ministry recognized the many community service hours and service projects completed throughout the year at a spring prayer service. It was a powerful event that empowered students to sign up for community service opportunities represented at the Community Service Fair that followed. The Senior Assembly was also brought back for the first time post COVID. Seniors who earned the highest awards and honors offered at Carondelet were recognized in community with the whole school.
  • Carondelet and De La Salle collaborated in March offering a presentation on becoming “Digital First Responders” by paying attention to their digital footprints and behavior on social media. We partnered with Kim Karr, co-founder of Digital4Good who trained student leaders from both schools to give this presentation to freshmen and sophomores while she presented to juniors and seniors. Kim Karr presented at a parent education evening on these topics as well. This opportunity was one where student leaders got the opportunity to build presentation skills and display collaboration and leadership on a topic of great importance to themselves and their peers.

Campus Ministry

  • Campus Ministry successfully executed a strategic enhancement of its Service and Advocacy programming in the 2024-2025 academic year, focusing on the “Ven a Ver” immersion program. This initiative centered on two key objectives: increasing program awareness and improving student accessibility, both of which yielded significant results.
  • To elevate the visibility of our service programs and celebrate our CSJ mission, we launched our first annual Service and Advocacy Liturgy in spring 2025. This event was paired with our annual Community Service & Advocacy Fair, which brought 45 local organizations to campus to connect with students. The impact of this new initiative was immediate and measurable. We sent the largest student group in our history on the Ven a Ver: D.C. social justice immersion in November 2025. Notably, 100% of the student participants cited the spring Liturgy and Fair as their primary motivation for applying.
  • To make these transformative experiences attainable for more students, we have also begun transitioning some Ven a Ver Immersions to academic breaks, mitigating concerns about missed instructional time. The inaugural “break immersion,” Ven a Ver: Sustainable Farming, was successfully held in June 2025. We will continue to build on this model by offering the Ven a Ver: Chicago immersion during Spring Break 2026.

Student Activities

  • We brought back our time-honored Senior Assembly and celebrated the Class of 2025 in front of the entire school community for their various accomplishments including the arts, athletics, leadership, and service.
  • Cougar Leadership Camp nearly doubled its attendance in August of 2024. Over 90 student leaders attended a three-day, two-night leadership retreat. We moved the date of the retreat intentionally so incoming freshmen leaders could attend camp before they even attended a day of class.
  • Speaking of freshmen leadership - of 23 available positions, students came from 17 different middle schools.
  • The Early Early Show, Carondelet’s student-run morning show, celebrated its fourth season and broke a new record of 49 live episodes of our broadcast.

Wellness Counseling

  • The Cannon Wellness Center completed its second full school year of operation. In addition to providing individual and group counseling support, the Cannon has continued to expand daily programming offerings for students. This year saw an increase in teachers bringing their classes into the Cannon to participate in wellness programming.
  • Wellness Counselors partnered with Student Activities and the Deans to deliver Rise In Action (positive bystander training) to all sophomore students.
  • The Cannon continues to serve as the hub for Carondelet’s Peer Counseling Program. Each of the monthly freshman Family Group meetings led by our senior peer counselors centered around a craft activity relevant to the month. This created equity in experience and facilitated discussion and connection.
  • The Cannon Wellness Center hosted Mental Health Awareness week in September, coinciding with National Suicide Prevention Week. Daily programming was offered for our school community with the goal of raising awareness around the importance of mental health and reducing stigma. The week culminated in a Mental Health Resource Fair, with representatives from local mental health organizations, Joybound therapy dogs, and Carondelet student clubs.

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Donor Honor Roll

Carondelet’s Many the Gifts report recognizes contributions made between July 1 2024 and June 30 2025. We make every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing and regret any errors.

Annual Giving Levels

 

Lifetime Giving Societies

Annual Giving Circles & Societies Gift(s)
Sisters of St. Joseph Circle $10,000+
President’s Circle $5,000+
Carondelet Circle $2,500+
Contributors Up to $2,499
Dear Neighbor Society $5,000+
1965 Society $1,965+
Fontbonne Society Legacy/Planned Gifts
Sister Circles Alumnae gifts to Alumnae Tuition Assistance (Class Circle)

 

Lifetime Giving Societies Gift(s)
Columns Society $1,000,000+
LePuy Society $500,000+
Médaille Society $100,000+
Red and White Society $50,000+
Founders Society $25,000+

† This donor is deceased

5, 10, 15, 20This donor has made gifts for at least this many consecutive years.

If you have a correction or are interested in learning how you may be included in future Many the Gifts listings, please reach out to Lynne Kenny ’86, Director of Philanthropy, or Summer Staino, Director of Development.

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