Kiski School announces new scholarship

A Westmoreland County boarding school announced Tuesday that it will begin offering a full scholarship for one student every year, beginning in the 2020-21 school year.

Officials at the Kiski School, an all-boys boarding school with about 190 students in grades 9-12 in Loyalhanna Township, said a new $1.15 million endowment from the Donald and Donna Mosites Family Foundation will fund the annual scholarship.

The Mosites’ son, Dean Mosites, a 1972 alumnus of the school, said the foundation wanted to offer the school a new avenue to boost diversity.

“We wanted to give the school a powerful tool to continue improving the diversity of the student body,” Mosites said. “Our hope is that this endowment fund will attract boys who strive to advance through education but whose families need a full scholarship to access the highest quality schooling.”

School officials said the ideal candidate will demonstrate the potential for high academic achievement, intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage fully in a vibrant and rigorous academic program.

Additional information about the school and the scholarship is available at www.kiski.org.

The establishment of the Mosites scholarship comes on the heels of the school’s announcement earlier this year that it was reducing tuition for the coming year by 20 percent from $61,300 to $48,500 for boarding students. Day students will pay $28,500.