Both the Marist School in Atlanta, Georgia and Notre Dame Preparatory and Marist Academy in Pontiac, Michigan are evident signs of the Marist’s century and a half long commitment to Catholic education in the United States. In addition, Marists also serve on campuses, in hospital education programs, and with youth in a wide variety of ways.
Marist School • Atlanta, Georgia
An Independent Catholic School of the
Marist Fathers & Brothers
 Rev. John H. Harhager, S.M. Marist Academy President |
The mission of Marist School, serving middle and high school students, is to form the whole person in the image of Christ through instruction grounded in religious values, the teachings of the Catholic Church and the spirit of the Society of Mary. This mission is advanced through communal pursuit of excellence in academic, religious, extracurricular, leadership, and service programs.
Students perform community service at every grade level. In addition to the individual requirement, every club and varsity team at Marist performs community service. A peer orientation program and several volunteer retreat programs are sponsored by Campus Ministry.
Campus Ministry also provides students with regional, national, and international mission trips. 81% of the student body participates in 56 different extracurricular clubs and student organizations. There is a strong fine and performing arts program encompassing choral and instrumental music, drama, debate, literary activities, and visual arts. Varsity and/or lower program sports are offered in basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, and wrestling.
From participation in a Suzuki-style violin program and orchestra in San Francisco to a summer school program for underprivileged youth in Atlanta, Marists express their founding call to help educate the youth of America.
They do it wherever they are and with the most important tool they have – compassion.
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Pontiac, Michigan
Providing its economically diverse student body a Catholic-Christian and internationally recognized college-preparatory experience of lasting value.
 Rev. Leon Olszamowski, S.M., Ph.D. NDPMA President |
Notre Dame Preparatory School (NDP) and Marist Academy provides exemplary junior-kindergarten through high school educational experience to students from families of diverse socio-economic means.
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy recognizes that the principles of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church are the educational norms upon which the Catholic school rests. We are to understand and to witness the Christian Good News of humanity’s redemption by the salvific work of Jesus Christ. The religious dimension of a young person’s growth must be addressed in the context of this Catholic Tradition. Thus, Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy assumes the responsibility of aiding in the development of a Christian conscience through an understanding and appreciation of Catholic doctrine, traditions and practices.
Catholic education views the student as a person redeemed by Christ and having a supernatural destiny. Therefore, Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy strives to create an atmosphere where the student’s faith can grow and attempts to provide means and opportunities for participation in faith experiences.
The vision and mission of NDP is to educate students within a highly identified Catholic and Marist-influenced, college preparatory high school environment; so as to become well-formed Christian people and upright citizens who actively contribute service to the community as academic scholars - thinking and acting in tandum, according to the teachings and example of Jesus Christ.
The purpose of Campus Ministry at Notre Dame Preparatory (NDP) is to support and complement both school and family in their mutually integrative roles of faith formation and religious education, which extends to the lived faith experience of the students. The student’s spiritual development is the core focus of a Christian, Catholic education. Christian faith, values and theology are taught, encouraged and discovered at NDP. How students live out these principles becomes their spirituality. Campus Ministry serves to support, enrich and foster this growth in our students. A structured, well-rounded, and holistic campus ministerial program is provided, which assists in empowering the students to meet the vision and mission of the school community.
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Colleges and Universities
California State Polytechnic Institute -
Newman Catholic Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
Madonna University, Livonia, MI
Marists express their
founding call to
help educate
the
youth of America.
They do it wherever
they are
and with
the most important
tool they have
– compassion.
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A STUDENT'S STORY
Students Excel — When Given a Chance
Their graduates go to Emory, Brown and Yale Universities along with Georgia Tech. Their program is tuition free. Their master teachers come back year after year. In a time when the quality of education is often questioned, the Marist’s Reach for Excellence program has consistently helped children of limited income and resources succeed in challenging high school and college preparatory programs. Begun by the Marist Fathers and Brothers on the occasion of their 100th anniversary in 2001, the late President of Marist School, Father Richmond Egan, and Principal Father Joel Konzen wished to develop a program for academically talented sixth graders from the underserved areas of metro Atlanta. In the intervening years, Reach for Excellence has served more than 300 children. Through three six week summer sessions and two years of alternating Saturday classes during the school year, the program develops the academic, social, and leadership skills each student needs to succeed in high school, college and beyond. Math, science, language arts and social studies are supplemented with physical fitness, computer studies, fine arts, business, and leadership classes. Graduate Kourtlynn Johnson said of the program, “Reach taught me that the only person who can hinder my progress and restrain my talents is me.” Reach for Excellence recruits and hires master teachers from public and independent high schools, and special consideration is given to hiring teachers whose background and experience enable them to serve as both faculty and role models for Reach students. The cost of the program is $4,000 per year, per student, or $12,000 for the full three years that a child is enrolled and the program relies completely on support from donors. Marist School provides facilities as a gift in kind. Among the 2008 graduates, 18 percent entered area independent schools, 45 percent entered public magnet programs, 18 percent entered charter schools, and 9% entered local high school honors programs. Daniel Chandra, who attended Reach for Excellence and graduated in 2008 from Marist School, just completed his first year at Yale University. He said he would tell potential students, “to envision a place of education, acceptance, and most of all opportunity.” |
Marists serve on campuses,
in hospital education programs, and with youth in a
wide variety of ways.
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