The 13-room stone house became St. Anne Convent, and the farmhouse held the Village School for the local farm children.

[citation needed] The Sisters of Mercy began Mater Misericordiae, an academy for young ladies and boys under 12 years of age, in 1885.

Lay faculty and staff joined in the 1950s, and soon after Waldron added a preschool and a co-educational Montessori program.

[citation needed] In 2015, the Academy came under public scrutiny for firing of a teacher who is in a same-sex marriage because the school board of directors and the Sisters of Mercy decided that its Catholic identity would be in jeopardy.

[3] Margie Winters, the school's director of religious education, was dismissed from the Academy after a parent reported her directly to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for marrying her female partner in a civil marriage ceremony in 2007.