Illuminating Excellence Initiatives

BC High has a proud tradition of transforming promising boys into capable, caring men. To sustain our leadership in educating the whole person, we must evolve our student formation program to reflect the world where our graduates will lead and serve. At a time when the process of helping boys become good, responsible men feels more complex and fraught than ever, we must make investments in our campus and curriculum that help students address issues related to masculinity, character, and other vital concerns through an examination of the relationship between God and self.

Using the same skills of reflection and self-assessment we teach our students, we are reassessing our curriculum to help ensure that we continue to combine a top-flight education with a life-changing formation experience. Gifts to the campaign support innovative approaches to learning and teaching that promote creative thinking and collaboration while ensuring that students are seen, known, cared for, and appropriately mentored. 

Campaign priorities in this area include:

Thousands of Eagles have had their life trajectory shaped at BC High. Our alumni often describe how they were transformed by the commitment of an adult who believed in their potential. Those transformational opportunities are a direct result of the generosity of devoted alumni, parents, and friends who make the dream of a BC High education achievable. Our campaign will sustain that legacy of caring through increased support for scholarships and financial aid, so that we can always keep our community open to bright, bold, and dedicated students.

If our graduates are to embody Jesuit values, we need to provide a learning environment that reflects the world they will encounter in college and beyond. As one friend of the school said: “BC High isn’t a place you go to—it’s a place you go from.” Support for scholarships helps ensure that every new class includes highly motivated students from a breadth of backgrounds and perspectives who will one day enhance our global network of alumni. Increasing our scholarship resources also enables us to be more discerning in our enrollment efforts by engaging and aligning ourselves with students and families whose hopes, dreams, and hearts reflect and help advance our mission.

Funding opportunities include:

Educating the whole student requires engaging head, heart, and hands—strengthening the mind, body, and spirit while providing the physical resources necessary for students to flourish both individually and as a community. To fully deliver on our mission, we must pursue campus enhancements that embody our ethos of human excellence and foster ever-deeper connections across our campus.

To address the academic, athletic, emotional, and spiritual needs of our students, we have developed a strategic campus master plan that integrates modern technology with our philosophical approach to learning. During the Illuminating Excellence campaign, BC High has already realized significant milestones in this vision with the completion of the Patrick F. Cadigan ’52 Wellness Complex and the Murphy Family Stadium—transformational investments that elevate student wellness, athletic excellence, and community life.

With a 40-acre campus situated on Dorchester Bay, we are looking toward a future that respects our history while embracing the needs of a diverse and dynamic community. It is an exciting moment to align the spaces where our students are formed with the technological and physical infrastructure required for the next generation of BC High.

Investments in our campus include the following: