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Halloween Caps Off First Ever All School Spirit Week

Beginning with a stealthy “Underground Spirit Week” by Faculty and Staff the week prior, the community launched into five days of themed fun that culminated in our traditional Halloween Parade…

Oct 31, 2025

Honoring Our Campus’s Past

CAIS will forever have a special relationship with our predecessors on this campus—the community of Mercy High School, which closed in 2020. On Saturday, September 20 we were thrilled to…

Sep 20, 2025

Making Our One Campus, One Community Dream Real

This spring will mark the conclusion of my time as CAIS’s Head of Lower School. I will be transitioning into a new, whole-school position — Director of Strategic Initiatives —…

May 07, 2025

03/29/25 – FSA Double Feature (for CAIS Families Only)

Saturday, March 29, the Family School Alliance will be showing a free DOUBLE FEATURE at the CAIS Theater. All current CAIS grades and siblings are welcome! CAIS families, see FSA…

Mar 20, 2025

Mass Greeting Morale Boost

Educational researchers have long observed that February is often a low point for teacher morale, with positive attitudes for teaching falling off from their high in September and then bouncing…

Feb 19, 2024

Lion Dance Super Fan

I am a huge fan of Mass Greeting, and especially of the sixth grade Lion Dance. Current Middle School students and alumni have shared with me how they watched the…

Jan 18, 2024

CAIS Community Rocks in More than A Million Ways

Raising a Spectacular $1,110,000 for the People and Programs of CAIS From elegant feathers and cool cats to playful plague doctors and even three Mandalorian helmets, ShowCAIS attendees had a blast with…

May 10, 2023

Classes of 2015-2022, Join Us for Cookies & Cocoa

We are overjoyed to be able to welcome alumni back to campus once again. We have lots of pent up hugs and smiles post-pandemic and can’t wait to share the…

Nov 16, 2022

Reflections from the Graduation Stage 10 Years Apart

By Kelsey Rasmussen ’12 “It was an absolute honor to MC CAIS’s 8th grade 2022 graduation ceremony. It was extra special for me because I was a 2012 graduate. Just…

Jul 22, 2022

Welcoming Class of 2022 into the Alumni Ranks

At Grad Dinner (held for the first time on our 19th Avenue Campus), Alumni Council member Julian Sweet ’20 (shown left with Cesare M. ’22 right) inducted the 42 members…

Jun 08, 2022