WELCOME MERCER FAMILIES!          

UPCOMING EVENTS

GENTLY USED BOOK FAIR BOOK COLLECTION - TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 - FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

To volunteer to help collect and sort donated books, please visit the 2025 Gently Used Book Fair Sign Up Genius.  

PTO MEETING - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 

PURCHASE (OR DONATE) A 2024-2025 MERCER YEARBOOK

The 2024-2025 Mercer Yearbook will be created through a company called Treering. Each family will order their yearbook individually from Treering. When you order your yearbook, you receive two free pages to personalize with your own pictures. 

If you have not purchased your yearbook yet, or even if you have, please consider donating a yearbook. Donated books may be used for a student who cannot afford their own, for the school library, and to ensure each classroom teacher gets a copy for their room.

To order, use this link or refer to the Yearbook flyer and scan the QR code. You can also visit www.treering.com/validate and enter the Mercer passcode: 1016953188074319.

CALL FOR PHOTOS FOR THE 2024-2025 MERCER YEARBOOK

As you capture fun and meaningful moments throughout the year, please email photos from school events, as well as class field trips and parties, to yearbook4mercer@gmail.com for potential inclusion in the 2024-2025 Mercer Yearbook. When you submit a photo, please include basic information about the photo, such as the name of the event, or class grade and teacher name. 

ABOUT THE MERCER PTO

Did you know? 

All parents or guardians of students in the Shaker Heights School District are automatically members of PTO. There are no membership fees, dues, or requirements. Any parent or guardian is welcome to attend any PTO meeting or event.

Families New to Mercer after School Starts

Contact mercerfamilies@gmail.com.  We will welcome your family and help you get acquainted with Mercer. 

2024-2025 MERCER PTO EXECUTIVE BOARD 

VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS

All Mercer volunteers need to complete the volunteer registration and have a background check, including fingerprinting. The district wants to make sure that anyone spending time around Shaker students and staff is legally cleared to do so. 

Who needs to be fingerprinted?

Classroom volunteers - YES

Field trip parent chaperones - YES

Volunteers at school-based PTO events - YES

Volunteers alone with students at anytime - YES

The scheduling and processing of all volunteer fingerprints/background checks will take place in the Office of Family and Community Engagement located on the second floor of the Shaker Heights Public Library Main Branch, 16500 Van Aken Blvd., Shaker Heights 44120. To schedule an appointment contact:  volunteer_face@shaker.org or call 216-295-6268. 

Check with the Mercer office to see if you are already registered or need to update your status. Background checks must be completed every three years.

FUNDRAISERS

MERCER OLYMPICS 2024

I BELIEVE THAT MERCER WINS!

Congratulations to the entire Mercer Community! What a wonderful time we had during the Mercer Olympics. Students, teachers, and staff alike took part in various Olympic-themed activities in the classroom and during Physical Education classes. Ask your student about the warm up dance! Did your student enjoy the torch relay, skating on plates as if playing hockey or scooting across the gym as if on a bobsled? Throughout the week, students also demonstrated various IB traits, teamwork and school spirit! 

Our Mercer community raised $24,000 and, once again, celebrated 100% participation. Everyone, especially Mercer, is a winner. Thank you for your generosity and support.

100% of the money raised by the Mercer PTO supports both our students and teachers through teacher grants, educational enrichment opportunities such as in-person and/or virtual field trips and assemblies, activities such as the Meerkat Club, Mercer Times (student newspaper), family nights, community building activities and more.

Hello, Mercer Meerkats! We hope that your family had fun reading and celebrating literacy with the Mercer community during our 2024 Mercer Meerkat Read-A-Thon! 

We are pleased to announce that together we raised $3,020 and students logged 6.052 minutes of reading during the 2023 Mercer Meerkat Read-A-Thon. In the first three years of the Read-A-Thon, we have raised over $14,000 and logged over 23,000 minutes of reading.

All funds will be used by the Mercer PTO to support both our students and teachers in new and creative ways, including teacher grants to enhance your student’s learning experience, educational enrichment opportunities and community building activities. 

Thank you for your generosity and for encouraging literacy and community while raising funds for our school.  Remember, #MercerReads #We Are ALL Readers!