Mercer is a nationally known Renzulli Schoolwide Enrichment Academy.

All Mercer students participate in Academies of Inquiry and Talent Development (AITD's) with the following objectives: 

1. To provide students with opportunities, resources, and encouragement to apply their interests, knowledge, thinking skills, creative ideas, and task commitment to self-selected problems or areas of study.
   
   
2. To acquire advanced-level knowledge and methodology used within particular disciplines, artistic areas of expression and interdisciplinary studies.
   
   
3. To develop authentic products or services that are directed primarily toward bringing about a desired impact on one or more specified audiences.
   
   
4. To develop self-directed learning skills in the areas of planning, problem solving and focusing, organization, resource utilization, time management, cooperation, decision making and self evaluation.
   
   
5. To develop task commitment, self-confidence, feelings of creative accomplishment, and the ability to interact effectively with other students and adults who share common goals and interests.

Timeline of Implementation of Schoolwide Enrichment Model at Mercer Middle School

• 1997 Mercer Receive $5,000 Planning Grant
• 1998 Charter School Status
• 1999- 2002 Comprehensive School Reform Development Plan
• 2002-2003 Charter School Renewal