The Montfort Academy is a co-educational, classical curriculum, Catholic high school faithful to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. We promote the highest ideals of faith, scholarship, sportsmanship, and character. Our exciting classical curriculum has been taught and tested for centuries and has produced some of the world’s greatest scientists, statesmen, and saints, noted for their abilities to think critically, write compellingly, speak in public eloquently, and contribute to the Great Conversation of Great Ideas down through the ages. Montfort prepares our Knights for excellence in this world so they can be with God forever in the next world.
Academics
At Montfort, students are not afraid to ask big questions. They delve deeply into the traditions of Western civilization, history, science, mathematics, and literature and learn to use the wisdom of the past to shape a vision for their future. They learn to love the philosophers of antiquity and the theologians of the Middle Ages and to explore creation side-by-side with Euclid, Galileo, and Einstein. They learn to interpret challenging original texts, to construct logical arguments, and to communicate well. They learn to think independently. They learn to write compellingly. And perhaps most unique about Montfort's program, they learn to speak confidently and eloquently in public through constant Oxford-style Socratic discussion and oral examination. In short, they are immersed in a vibrant intellectual life of great ideas down through the ages. . .an adventure to seek truth.
Faith
Montfort is true Catholic formation. Our primary objective is the sanctification of the soul. We care about our students beyond their grades; we care about who they and how they live. With Mass each Tuesday, frequent prayer and confession, weekly Holy Hours, Eucharistic adoration, and Rosary, and countless opportunities to serve God and neighbor, Montfort students grow in virtue, character, and nobility. They leave Montfort prepared to defend, promote, and celebrate all that is good, true and beautiful. Now as physicians, seminarians, nurses, accountants, White House interns, scientists, investment bankers, wealth managers, writers, filmmakers, soldiers, professors, and teachers, Montfort alumni are leading the transformation of the world, helping to orient our culture, business, politics, medicine, laws, science, literature, and art ever towards God and the greater good.
Athletics
Sports are an essential part of life at The Montfort Academy. Participation in Sports helps develop not only the body but also the mind and soul, so that all three work in balance and harmony. Montfort Knights play baseball, soccer, basketball, softball, and volleyball and run track and cross country fairly and nobly on and off the playing field. They compete with the dignity and virtue of a noble person. Sportsmanship at Montfort is always about playing, winning virtuously, and losing graciously; it really is about how you play the game.
Clubs
From astronomy to robotics, from a cappella to swing dancing, from computer programming to managing The Montfort Academy Gift Shop, from our nationally recognized pro-life club to our St. Joseph the Worker carpentry and construction club, The Montfort Academy's clubs are as diverse as our students. We also have a drama club that performs a Fall Shakespeare or Ancient Greek play and Spring Musical, a Debate team on its way to State recognition, a Renaissance polyphony schola, a chess club, a math club, a yearbook club, and much, much more!
“A Montfort Academy graduate knows how to think; a person who can think can do anything.”
“Throughout my school years, I never really experienced learning as I found it to be at The Montfort Academy. Like most, I was blinded to all that was good, true, and beautiful. If there ever was a place that allows for pure spiritual and personal growth, it is here. . .where young minds and spirits can blossom and forge their own way through the jungle of daily living. It allows a young person to grow up in purity and safety as can rarely be found anywhere else.”
The Montfort Academy is the only Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of New York to be included in the Cardinal Newman Society Catholic Education Honor Roll for excellent and faithful Catholic education.
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CLICK THE IMAGE OF OUR PATRON SAINT LOUIS DE MONTFORT, DEPICTED HERE AT THE VATICAN, FOR A SPECIAL MASS HELD IN HIS HONOR ON HIS FEAST DAY APRIL 28, 2024.
Founded in 2002 by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy and former White House Fellow Richard Greco, Jr., The Montfort Academy is an independent, classical-curriculum college-preparatory high school for boys and girls firmly grounded in the rich intellectual, spiritual, and liturgical traditions and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The Montfort Academy is the only classical-curriculum high school in the Archdiocese of New York and has been ranked among the 50 best Catholic high schools in America, according to the Cardinal Newman Society and the Acton Institute.