NativityMiguel Network of Schools

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The NativityMiguel Network of Schools is a nationwide network of faith-based middle schools that aim to provide a high quality education to children who have the potential to succeed academically, but have no alternative to their public school.

1 Mission Statement
2 Nine Mission Effectiveness Standards
3 Scope and Demographics
4 Schools in the Network
5 External links

[edit] Mission Statement

The mission of the NativityMiguel Network of Schools is to enhance the viability and the vitality of our member schools and strengthen their capacity to deliver a uniquely effective, faith-based education to the students in their care.

[edit] Nine Mission Effectiveness Standards

1-Faith Based

A NativityMiguel School is explicitly faith-based in its mission.

2-Serves the Economically Poor and Marginalized

A NativityMiguel School offers a financially accessible, not tuition-based education to students from low-income families in impoverished communities and reflects the faith, cultural, and racial demographics of the local community.

3-A Holistic Education

A NativityMiguel School addresses the academic, physical, social, emotional, moral and spiritual needs of a student, and develops the growth of the student in all areas.

4-Partners with the Family

A NativityMiguel School involves the student's support system in the education of the child and provides opportunity for the growth of the support system.

5-Extended Day and Year

A NativityMiguel School extends the hours and days that a student is in session and offers structured opportunities for learning, enrichment and growth during that time.

6-Commitment Beyond Graduation

It is the expectation that any and all students in a NativityMiguel School will graduate from high school and go on to some form of post-secondary education. A NativityMiguel School offers a Graduate Support Program that eases a graduate's transition into high school; tutors, advocates for and maintains a connection with all graduates during high school; supports the high school in preparing the student for graduation and post-secondary education; and tracks the growth and achievements of all graduates.

7-Effective Administrative Structure

A NativityMiguel School is governed by an effective administrative structure that includes a strong board comprised of leaders, committed to the financial and academic sustainability of the school, and a working administrative team, based on the president/principal model, that attends to the operational and educational stability and vitality of the school.

8-On-Going Assessment and Inquiry

A NativityMiguel School is accredited by a recognized accrediting association as providing a quality middle school education that will prepare students for success in high school; and utilizes standardized tests and other appropriate assessments to track and document student performance and adapt the educational design if needed.

9-Active Network Participant

A NativityMiguel School is an active participant in the collaboration, support, and development of the school's respective network. This includes conferences and institutes, collegial visits, data gathering etc.

[edit] Scope and Demographics

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% or more, NativityMiguel model schools have succeeded where so many others fail. Ninety-two percent (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.