Mission & Profile
The Montfort Academy’s primary objective is the sanctification of our students’ souls so they can be with God forever in Heaven. No other mission on earth is more important. Montfort’s secondary objective is to prepare our students for success and prosperity in this world and to orient our culture toward’s God’s goodness, truth, and beauty.
Our mission is achieved through an authentically Catholic environment of prayer, Mass, and Eucharistic Adoration; a disciplined and rigorous academic curriculum steeped in the highest traditions of Western Civilization and scholarship; and a teaching staff committed to helping our students to become young men and women of strong character.
“Montfort is proof that a school is more excellent the more identifiably Catholic it is. At Montfort, you’ve got your priorities straight.”
Montfort Knights grow in faith and intellect and have an unusual inner confidence that derives from strength of character. Montfort Knights are now doctors, lawyers, scientists, seminarians, postulants, accountants, film directors, wealth managers, professors, designers, restaurateurs, physical therapists, computer programmers, distinguished sports players, and more.
Montfort Knights Seek Wisdom, Practice Virtue, Keep the Faith, and orient our culture to the Good, True, and Beautiful.
Quick Facts
Grades 9-12
Total Students 165
4-yr college acceptance* 100%
Class of 2025 46
Male/Female Ratio 40/60
Ethnicities 48
Students of Color 56%
Financial Aid Recipients 92%
CEEB Code 332646
Charter SUNY
Niche.com Overall Rating A+
*one U.S. Marine Corps enlistment in 2023
Faculty
Faculty members 21
Combined years teaching 272
Masters Degrees 60%
Doctorates 17%
Professional Degrees 22%
Religious Chaplains 1
Student to Faculty Ratio 8:1
Curriculum
Independent classical Catholic high school with core curriculum of Trivium and Quadrivium. Latin required. Many classes including Advanced Biology, Chemistry and Physics labs, Philosophy, and Astronomy & Astrophysics taught at college level with college textbooks and equipment. Recognized by Cardinal Newman Society’s Honor Roll as a School of Excellence for fifteen years consecutively. Ranked A+ by Niche.com since 2021.
Admissions Requirements
Admissions is selective, based on middle school academic record, application, teacher or pastor recommendations, standardized test score (TACHS), student and family interviews, and school visit. Acceptance rate was 48%.
History
The Montfort Academy is a classical curriculum Catholic high school founded in 2002 by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy and White House Fellow Richard Greco, Jr., who believed that the best way to orient society and culture toward the greater good was to form souls to be Christ-centered, minds to be classically trained, the body to be disciplined in good habits, and the whole person to be of good character. As the only classical Catholic high school in New York, Montfort’s core curriculum features classes in Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Latin, Greek, Astronomy, Civics, Philosophy, Chivalry, The Great Conversation of Western Civilization, Moral Theology, and the Great Books, in addition to an honors level high school program. All classes are taught in an Oxford style Socratic way, with oral examinations and emphasis on writing. Most students complete a Senior Research Thesis in Astrophysics or Advanced Biology using the Chicago citation method.
Administration
PRESIDENT
The Honorable Richard Greco, Jr.
Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy and White House Fellow rgreco@themontfortacademy.org
DIRECTOR OF GUIDANCE & COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Robert Moderelli
rmoderelli@themontfortacademy.org
914-699-7090