Founded in August 2003 by Fr. Tim Hogan, former pastor of St. Boniface parish in Louisville, Kentucky, and administered by Sr. Paula Kleine-Kracht OSU, Nativity Academy at St. Boniface was established as a private middle school in the Catholic tradition to educate urban youth.
Nativity Academy seeks to impart to its students the highest spiritual ideals, moral values, knowledge, learning skills, discipline, character formation and personal care. The school is a co-institutional setting with boys and girls in single-sexed classrooms. The staff is a mix of full-time teachers and committed volunteers. They provide unwavering motivation and support and encourage each student to realize his or her full human potential as a productive member of society and as a leader and role model in family and community. Each student receives the opportunity for a middle school education which will enable him or her to pursue an excellent secondary education leading to college and a professional career.
With the opening of Nativity Academy, Louisville joined forty other cities in the United States, which have at least one private middle school based on the NativityMiguel model of education. Schools in the NativityMiguel Network provide a proven approach of faith-based, private education and mentoring for low-income children with academic promise.
Originating nearly forty years ago at the Nativity Mission in New York City's Spanish Harlem, this network has grown to sixty-four middle schools that now serve over four thousand children throughout the United States. The reason for the growth of this model of education is simple: it works. Nearly ninety percent of NativityMiguel alumni graduate from high school in four years. Over seventy-five percent enroll in two or four-year colleges and universities. The graduates of Nativity Academy at St. Boniface are on their way to achieve or exceed this level of success.
Rev. Timothy Hogan
Founder of Nativity Academy
With our academic, extended-day and extended-year programs, our students receive an excellent education in and beyond the classroom. Moreover, our commitment to our students and their families continues well beyond their three years at Nativity Academy. Through our Graduate Support Program, Nativity provides mentoring and academic support for its graduates throughout their high school careers.
Thank you for visting our web site to learn more about our wonderful school. We welcome your interest and invite you to join us in educating students of academic promise from low-income families.
Sincerely,
Sr. Paula Kleine-Kracht, OSU
Executive Director
Nativity Academy at St. Boniface