Community-Oriented, Structured, Disciplined, Committed
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
Student/Partner Alliance provides scholarships to ten private schools in Essex, Hudson and Union counties. These schools consider it their mission to educate disadvantaged students. Many of New Jersey's inner-city public schools have major problems, both academically and socially. Some graduate as few as 35% of their students. By contrast, the private schools in the same neighborhoods are graduating over 90% of their students and the vast majority of those graduating go on to institutions of higher learning. Although all of the schools in the program have a religious affiliation, they were not selected for religious reasons, but rather because they are the only private schools in these inner-city neighborhoods. Most of the students want to attend these schools because they provide a better educational experience than the public schools. The schools SPA supports have limited financial resources but use structure, discipline, accountability and encouragement to motivate their student bodies. SPA schools have consistently high behavioral and academic standards for their students, and also provide the support and additional help needed to achieve those standards. All of the schools promote college readiness from freshman year on and provide the guidance and counseling necessary for the students to reach their academic goals.
Unfortunately, most inner-city youngsters don't have the financial means to attend a private school. In addition to helping the students directly through scholarship support, The Student/Partner Alliance helps ensure the economic viability of our partner schools by enrolling additional students for those schools not at full capacity.
| St. Anthony High School 175 Eighth Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 201-332-5970 Principal: Dr. Matthew Glowski SPA Coordinator: Margie Calabrese www.stanthonyhighschool.org |
St. Benedict’s Preparatory 520 Martin Luther King Blvd. Newark, NJ 07103 973-643-4800 Principal: Father Edwin Leahy SPA Coordinator: Candace Bradshur www.sbp.org |
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Christ the King
Preparatory High School |
Hudson Catholic Regional High School |
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Immaculate Conception High School |
Marist
High School |
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St. Mary's High School |
Marylawn
of the Oranges Academy 445 Scotland Road South Orange, NJ 07079 973-762-9222 Principal: Christine Lopez SPA Coordinator: Kathy Cirlincione www.marylawn.us |
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St. Patrick's
High School |
St.
Vincent’s Academy 228 West Market Street Newark, NJ 07103 973-622-1613 Administrative Director: Sr. June Favata SPA Coordinator: Sr. Margaret Killough www.svanewark.org |
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Box 566 Millburn, NJ 07041
973-379-5878
Fax: 973-467-7544