 The Sisters opened a new Academy building at 1176 East Broadway in 1901, where it was to remain until 2007.Mercy Academy is in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, and is currently located on a campus at 5801 Fegenbush Lane in Southeast Jefferson County near the Hurstbourne Lane Extension, with General Electric's Appliance Park complex on the opposite side of Fegenbush Lane, though hidden from direct view by a wooded buffer zone.Mercy was named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 2000.