Mercy High School (Connecticut)

Mercy High School is a private, Roman Catholic, all-girls high school in Middletown, Connecticut located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich. Their brother school is Xavier High School (Connecticut).

History
The first class graduated from Mercy High School in 1967. 

Mercy is an all-girls high school that is class LL and offers sports. Their mascot is a tiger and the school basketball team won the state championship in 2013.

A senior student at the school launched a petition on Change.org in March 2017 to change the school's policy on not allowing students to bring a female guest to the school prom. While the first petition was taken down a few days later, the student making a verified claim that she was pressured to remove it, a second was launched by a local resident with a similar request. In response to the petition, the school's president stated that it requires students to attend the prom "alone or in the company of a friend or friends of their choosing" but that "the expectation has been that a Mercy student's date be male." Many students wore rainbow-colored ribbons on their school skirts for the rest of the year in the only way of protest that is permitted.

Sports
Interscholastic sports offered at Mercy include: Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross-Country, Field Hockey, Golf, Gymnastics, Ice Hockey, Indoor Track, Lacrosse, Outdoor Track, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, and Volleyball.

Notes and references

External links
 Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich
 School Website

Category:Catholic secondary schools in Connecticut
Category:Buildings and structures in Middletown, Connecticut
Category:Schools in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Category:Girls' schools in Connecticut
Category:Middletown, Connecticut