ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC
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Mission Statement
Saint Martin de Porres Academy is a faith-based, NativityMiguel middle school that provides a tuition-free, extended day education for underserved girls and boys from low-income families in the New Haven area. We are an independent Catholic school committed to a belief in the dignity and worth of every person. We strive to provide each child with a promising start in life and to equip them to fulfill their academic potential while achieving spiritual and social maturity. We welcome children of all faiths, races, and cultures.
About This Cause
The mission of St. Martin de Porres Academy is to break the cycle of poverty through education. In 1994, a group of New Haven business people came together to improve opportunities for urban young people. After an eight year experience in a parochial school of seeing countless students who were unable to pay the very modest tuition of that elementary school, they envisioned opening a private, tuition-free middle school for underserved, low-income children from the New Haven area. The journey began with the initial idea in 2003 and came to fruition with the opening of St. Martin de Porres Academy in September of 2005. Our goal is to provide urban boys and girls the opportunity to choose a quality education that will allow them to live up to their full potential. At the Academy we promote more than academic excellence; we cultivate personal responsibility, social skills, and leadership that are balanced with a strong spiritual foundation and recognition of the need to serve others. As a Nativity model school, all students attend on scholarship. Families make a commitment of time and pay a modest monthly activity fee, but 95% of our operating revenue comes from donations, grants and fundraising events. Each student receives a $16,000 scholarship, which represents the cost of their extended day and extended year education. Now in our eleventh year, we have and support a school community of 70 students enrolled in the fifth through eighth grades at the Academy and 106 graduates succeeding in college preparatory high schools, college, or serving our country in the military. In June of 2013, the Academy received full accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Independent Schools and was highly commended for our “remarkable dedication to providing high quality education to an impoverished student population.” Our students live in the greater New Haven area. All of our students live below the poverty level and qualify for free and reduced lunch. Our school statistics: • 30% of our students are African-American, 66% are Hispanic, and 4% are Caucasian • 100% from low-income families in the greater New Haven area • 47% live in single parent households • 97% attendance rate • 100% of our students have graduated from high school in four-years (compared with a 70% graduation in New Haven) • 81% of our alumni have attended/are attending private college preparatory high schools. • 30% of families in New Haven live below the poverty line, one of the highest poverty rates in Connecticut. • 43% of children in New Haven live below the poverty line.