Mount Carmel-holy Rosary School vs. St. Benedict's Preparatory School

MCHR provides a superior Pre-K (Age 3) - 8th grade education, combining the best teaching and technology with traditional values in a close-knit, caring atmosphere.

Our students consistently score high on standardized examinations: maintaining a 97-100% passing rate on the New York State examinations! The academically rigorous curriculum is supplemented by a strong arts program including violin, percussion ensemble, vocal music, and ballroom dancing.

Our violinists have performed at venues that include the Russian Tea Room, Cipriani and University Club and have been featured on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Our 2007 graduating class received $382,000+ in scholarship funding for high school.

We have 8 violin students receiving scholarships to attend Juilliard's Music Advancement Program (MAP) and additional students at The Geneva Conservatory of Music.

The Benedictine Monks of Newark Abbey, committed to the city of Newark by our vow of Stability of Place, sponsor and staff Saint Benedict's Prep, a Catholic preparatory school for boys in grades seven through twelve.

In the fifteen-hundred-year-old tradition of monastic schools, Saint Benedict's witnesses to the Good News of Jesus Christ through what the Church calls a preferential option for the poor.

By design, then, the student population reflects the racial, religious and socioeconomic mixture of the school's primary drawing area (the nearby urban neighborhoods of Newark, East Orange and Irvington), but includes residents of outlying towns as well.

Many of our students come from a background which is severely impoverished by the racism of our society and which leaves them at a competitive disadvantage in academics and indeed in daily living.

We enlist men and women who share our vision to assist us in our task of helping parents in their sacred duty of educating their children according to Christian principles.

Thus we offer a demanding college prep curriculum in the setting of a community that stresses Christian values, especially self-respect, fraternal cooperation and the primacy of the spiritual dimension in every phase of a person's life.