What We Do

Scope

Today there are 64 NativityMiguel Schools serving over 4,300 middle school age boys and girls in 27 states. Approximately 90% of the students attending NativityMiguel Schools qualify for the Federal Government’s Free and Reduced Cost Lunch program, an indication that a family is living at or near poverty. Actually, 53% of the students are African American; another 37% are Latino. 

Noting that many inner-city schools have dropout rates of 50 percent or more, NativityMiguel model schools have succeeded where so many others fail. "Ninety-two per cent (92%) of our students graduate from high school, as compared to the national rate for African-American and Latino students of 55%, and the four-year dropout rate for the network's high school graduation class this year was 6 percent, and 96 percent enrolled in a two- or four-year college this fall.

Our schools provide a safe place to learn, and keep the students away from the dangerous influences on their neighborhood streets.

The Network

The NativityMiguel Network strives to increase the capacity of these schools, and future schools, to continue to provide the kind of education that will make a lasting difference in the lives of the children we are privileged to teach and counsel. 

The NativityMiguel Network of Schools is dedicated to the growth of these sources of hope for children from the country’s urban areas. To advance this work, the NativityMiguel Network

• supports conferences for school personnel, the compilation and distribution of best practices, standards for outcome assessment, and other joint ventures;

• serves as the mechanism to seek broad funding on a national level for projects that benefit member schools; and

• works to increase the visibility of Network schools across the country.