New York Nativity Centers

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New York Nativity Centers (NY Nativity) serve to provide the opportunity of quality education to students from families of extreme poverty in various neighborhoods of New York City.

The model for this school is the Nativity Mission Center (NMC) on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Developed over 30 years ago, it has enjoyed great success in bringing students from a public school environment where they were performing below grade level to a point where they are at or above grade level in Math, Reading, and Language Arts.

Graduates of these schools – which operate year around by providing a summer leadership camp experience – achieve acceptance into private high schools and are further supported by NY Nativity with financial aid assistance and continued after school study sessions.

This successful model (sending 80% of its graduates to college as the first in their family to manage such an educational achievement) has now been replicated in 40 other places around the country including the centers in the Bronx - St. Ignatius School (SIS) in Hunts Point - and in Brooklyn (BJP) in Crown Heights.

In 2007, SIS, BJP, and Manhattan's NMC combined under the name New York Nativity Centers.

[edit] The Nativity Model

The concepts and ideals of what makes a Nativity school are simple:

  • Essentially a middle school
  • Quality education: academic, physical, social, moral and spiritual development
  • Student body made up of young people from low-income urban families who would not otherwise have access to such an education
  • Extremely low tuition so that our families can contribute
  • Faith-based curriculum
  • Small class sizes
  • Extended school day
  • Extended school year
  • High amount of parental involvement
  • Academic and overall support during the high school years

[edit] Values

The values that have inspired the Nativity model include a respect for the dignity and potential of each person, a responsibility to assist the poor and those in need, a strong sense of community, and the obligation to promote a society bolstered by social justice. Nativity accepts all students without regard to race, color, religion or ethnicity.

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