Financials
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2024-2025 Annual Report
Dear Miriam Community,
Spring is always an exciting time of renewal, and it’s no different this year at Miriam. It is our deepest joy to see our children blossom in our organization. We look forward to new programming, new fundraising efforts, and opportunities to serve new students and their families.
At the same time, it’s important to reflect on how we are working to change the trajectory of children’s lives in this Annual Impact Report. The 2024-25 fiscal year brought growth and innovation to the Miriam community.
Miriam Learning Center expanded its teacher training offerings to address both a shortage of special education teachers and a need for a deeper understanding of neurodiverse populations within the general education setting. These trainings are strengthening special education programs throughout the St. Louis metro area.
Our K-12 school is building students’ confidence and competence across a wide range of learning needs. At the high school, the second year of our teacher-developed Miriam Essentials curriculum added even more skills for life to students’ portfolios, and the transition program continues to expand. Once again, 100 percent of our seniors graduated with a diploma AND a post-graduation plan. At the lower-middle school, our counselor implemented the third year of a three-year social skills curriculum she created, and administrators responded to parents’ requests for expanded after-school programming by adding Dungeons & Dragons, a basketball clinic through MAC, Girls on the Run, and a Lego club.
We hosted our second annual Minds in Bloom Spring Soiree in April, raising more than $200,000 for scholarships that help students and their families afford Miriam School. We also began implementing our 2025-2028 Strategic Plan. I’m so proud of our amazing team of Board members and educators, who have developed this plan with dynamic objectives and action steps that were set in motion immediately. Our goals are ambitious, as the need for Miriam’s services continues to grow, and as students’ needs intensify. Children who learn differently, their families, and the people who serve them are seeking support, tools, and specialized educational approaches.
We are so deeply grateful for our generous community members whose contributions make this vital work possible. I hear from parents every day that they truly don’t know where their children or their families would be without Miriam, and I am blessed to bear witness to children’s growth each and every day. This is a testament to your support and to every supporter who helps us carry out our mission to empower unique learners.
Wish every good wish,
Meg Bamford
Head of Miriam School and Learning Center
view our 2024-2025 annual report