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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 2023-2024 year helped raise $1.7M in contributed income, 131% 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 $489K for our Power of Her Campaign. The quiet phase of this fundraising effort, which ran the duration of the 2023-24 fiscal year, is our opportunity to define the scope and needs of the project and secure early investments. We look forward to sharing more!

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 roughly 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 50% of Carondelet students receive financial aid, including $2.1 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: 26
  • 16:1 student to faculty ratio
  • 99% of graduates attended college
  • Carondelet did approximately 20.47% better than the national pass rate on the 2024 AP Exams
  • Standardized test scores were higher than the national average across the board on both the SAT and ACT.
    • ACT-27% above national average in English, 16% higher in math, 24% higher in reading, 17% higher in science and 20% higher overall.
    • SAT-9% higher in math, 14% higher in English, and 12% higher overall.

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 58% or 485 students participated in Cougar athletics during the 2023-2024 school year.

Across all sports, Carondelet had 15 First Team athletes (not including Swim and Dive), 12 Second Team athletes (not including Swim and Dive), and four Players of the Year (not including Swim and Dive) in the EBAL All League Selections 2023-2024.

NCS Scholastic program honors. All Varsity Carondelet Sports earned a GPA of 3.5 and above (including club sports).

  • Basketball (3.8), Beach Volleyball (3.6), Cross Country (3.7), Dance (3.8), Diving (3.8), Golf (3.8), Lacrosse (3.7), Rugby (3.7), Sideline Cheer (3.6), Soccer (3.7), Softball (3.6), Stunt (3.5), Swimming (3.6), Tennis (3.7), Track and Field (3.6), Volleyball (3.7), and Water Polo (3.7)

Student Life

  • Carondelet and De La Salle collaborated in March by offering a presentation on the Dangers of Fentanyl given by Song for Charlie on both campuses. Representatives from Song for Charlie and Wellness Counselors from both campuses spoke at a parent education night following the day’s assembly.
  • Carondelet hosted the CA CSJ High School Leadership Conference in October 2023. Students from each CSJ high school in California (Our Lady of Peace Academy, Saint Mary’s Academy, and St. Joseph High School) gathered to explore what student leadership as a CSJ school looks like and helped to put on St. Marty’s Party.

Campus Ministry

  • We continued to grow our capacity to financially support students who are accepted into the Ven a Ver Immersion program and have been able to reduce the overall cost to families.
  • The Advent Justice project was a huge success:
    • To honor the joy and love Jesus brings with his birth at Christmastime, we partnered with the Crayon Initiative to bring happiness to children in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes by giving them crayons.
    • We collected and sent used crayons to The Crayon Initiative, who melts them down by color. After the melting process, these crayons are formed into new, bigger crayons which makes it easier for children and the elderly to hold. We also wrote cards and decorated holiday banners. We hosted three lunch-time activities where students used the crayons collected to color and write these cards/banners. These colorful cards and banners of hope were delivered to children in the hospital and personally shared with patients in memory care during an Advent Service Field Trip on Dec. 15. Our goal was to collect 100 lbs. of used crayons. Our community crushed that goal and collected over 250 pounds!

Student Activities

  • The Early Early Show—Carondelet’s student-produced morning show—had a record number of 47 episodes, almost double from the previous season.
  • Carondelet and De La Salle Leadership hosted The Winton Games, where each 5th period class sent a representative to compete in an elimination style rally. Winners received The Winton Cup.
  • Campus Ministry and Student Activities joined together to host our very first Cougar Leadership Camp. Almost 50 student leaders went on a four-day/three-night retreat at Alliance Redwoods, where they learned about the rich history of the Sisters of St. Joseph and how it relates to creating intentional programming and relationships.
  • With a generous donation from Julie Gonzalez ’99 for our annual St. Marty’s Halloween Party, we were able to give each Monument Crisis Center student a costume that they requested. We also welcomed De La Salle Academy to the festivities for the first time.

Wellness Counseling

  • The Cannon Wellness Center completed its first full school year of operation. In addition to providing individual and group counseling support, the wellness center space and increased staffing have allowed for the expansion of programming to include daily offerings for students. Many of the activities are related to the Cannon’s monthly wellness themes.
  • This year the Cannon became the hub for Carondelet’s Peer Counseling Program. Our senior peer counselors have held all mentoring meetings with their freshman Family Groups in the Cannon. This has given our freshman students an opportunity to feel welcomed and familiar with the space.

Stories

Allie Macaulay '15
Empowering a Legacy of Girl Power—Allie Macaulay ’15

Our family was first introduced to Carondelet in 2011, and we were lucky to call it home for more than 11 years. Our daughters Allie ’15, Hannah ’19, and Kelsey ’22 all embraced Carondelet’s Integral Student Outcomes of heart, faith, courage, and excellence and carried them into college and beyond. They all experienced challenges in college and life, and found success in remembering their roots and the sisterhood from their days at Carondelet.

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Donor Honor Roll

Carondelet’s Many the Gifts report recognizes contributions made to the school from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. 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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