Capital Campaign

For the Boys and Girls - Capital Campaign

The Kiski School’s new Capital Campaign is called the “For the Boys and Girls” Campaign because it is fully focused on raising new funding for student scholarship support. Our new Capital Campaign has an aggressive goal of raising $5 million by 2025. The good news is that during the recent “quiet phase” of our “For the Boys and Girls” Campaign we already successfully raised over $2.2 million in fresh pledges and gifts for the Campaign and our student scholarship program.

To be sure, there is a reason that history is such an important part of academic study. Stories and lessons of the past pivotally shape our understanding of the world, allowing us to make more informed decisions going forward. Perhaps more importantly, history sets the foundation for who we become in the future.

The foundation of The Kiski School was set forth by our founder, Dr. Andrew Wilson, more than 135 years ago. It was his vision to provide a first-class preparatory school that teaches, motivates, and develops students during the most impressionable time of their lives. And while we have seen steady and substantial enhancements over the years, his original intention has remained our focus at Kiski.

Now, looking forward together, it is important to note that everyone at Kiski remains fully committed to providing an unparalleled learning and growing experience for all of our students. We understand that valuable lessons don’t just come from the classroom.

Here at Kiski, learning, maturation, and growth are greatly influenced by the students themselves. The Kiski School has always valued and celebrated diversity as we believe that each student brings a unique point of view and learns to consider the alternative perspectives of his roommates, classmates, and teammates.

Consequently, we strive each year to make the Kiski experience as accessible as possible. We made great strides with our historic tuition reset in 2019, with costs now 20% lower than our peer institutions. But there is still work to do in order to open our doors to more students who desire to come here.

In 2023, we made a second historic decision to move this goal forward – making the Kiski experience possible for girls, in addition to boys. While not a new direction for single-sex boarding schools, it was a monumental move for Kiski, and one that will help the school continue to thrive for years to come.

The Kiski School’s storied past is impressive and built upon a distinguished history and a rich heritage. Yet, as we all know, with the necessary amount of funding freshly raised, there will be many wonderful new success stories written about Kiski and our boys and girls.

As such, we encourage you to closely follow the new Capital Campaign “For the Boys and Girls.” In the relatively near future we will be reaching out to you to discuss your involvement in and support of this important initiative. And, when the time is right for you, we encourage you to generously support this new Capital Campaign for Kiski, our students, and our annual scholarship and financial aid programs.

We sincerely appreciate all that you do to continue to loyally support Kiski, our educational mission, our fundraising programs, and, of course, all Kiski girls and boys.

Contact us to learn more

Please feel free to directly contact Steven T. Szilagyi ’88, P ’21 (Associate Head of School for Institutional Advancement) at any time with questions about our Capital Campaign. Steve can be reached in his office at The Kiski School at 724-639-8028 or steven.szilagyi@kiski.org.

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