DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL

We are one of over forty tuition free middle schools in the Nativity Miguel network of schools across the country and we accept students without regard to race, religion or ethnicity.

Our educational model includes an extended learning day, extended school year program that provides a multi-dimensional learning opportunity for our students to be prepared for a private college preparatory high school experience and then onto a college/university education.

The mission of the Durham Nativity School (DNS) is based on the highly successful model of other Nativity Network and Nativity Miguel Schools across the country -- to help break the cycle of poverty through a quality middle school education that will help empower each

child to reach their full potential.

Durham Nativity School serves middle school boys who come from financially challenged (low income) families. The students should be able to thrive in a structured, academically challenging environm ent focused on the development of leadership skills and community service. The school provides the boys with emotional, social, moral and intellectual support through small classes, an extended day and a year-round program. We consider our mission to be an eleven year process with our students. Our faculty and staff work to help our students become young men ready for the rigors of college preparatory high schools and, consequently colleges.

Our Board of Directors has also adopted a high school tuition assistance program that will allow us to continue supporting our graduates that attend a college preparatory high school that does not offer a full scholarship.

The school is not tuition driven, but completely dependant on private donation. We require active parental involvement and hire faculty and staff fully dedicated to our mission.

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