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The Jesuits created their first tuition-free, college-prep middle school at Nativity Mission Center in New York in 1971. This new “Nativity” school used small classes, extended academic days and a longer school year to prepare students for success in college-prep high schools, colleges and positions of community leadership. By combining rigorous academic expectations with extra-curricular enrichment activities, the first Nativity school became a second home for its students.

Sixteen similar Jesuit Nativity schools now operate throughout the country as part of the Nativity Network. Like Chicago Jesuit Academy and the original Nativity Mission Center, each school in the Nativity Network gives students from underserved backgrounds a quality faith-based education they otherwise could not access.

Chicago Jesuit Academy Results

The first graduating classes, the Class of 2009 and Class of 2010, have earned admission to at least one of the following college prep high schools:

                  Chicago Waldorf School                         

      Christ the King Jesuit College Prep        

Culver Military Academy (IN)

      Fenwick High School                

Holy Trinity High School 

Jones College Prep            

Lane Technical High School         

Latin School of Chicago   

Loyola Academy

North Lawndale College Prep

Northside College Prep

St. Gregory the Great High School

St. Ignatius College Prep

The Thacher School (CA)

Urban Prep

Walter Payton College Prep

Whitney Young Magnet High School

Chicago Jesuit Academy Standardized Test Results

The graph below illustrates the grade equivalency scores of the young men in the Class of 2009 as fifth graders and eighth graders.

• At the start of fifth grade, the students in the Class of 2009 tested on average at a 3.6 grade level in reading.  As eighth graders, these students tested on average at a 10.5 level in reading.
• At the start of fifth grade, the students in the Class of 2009 tested on average at a 3.8 grade level in mathematics.  As eighth graders, these students tested at a 10.6 grade level in mathematics.
• In the Language Arts portion of the Terra Nova Standardized Test, our eighth-graders tested on average at an 11.1 grade level.
• From the fifth through eighth grade, the Class of 2009 made 7 years of grade-level progress.
• On average, each student has earned a little over $45,000 in high school scholarship funds.  These funds have been secured through the generosity of their respective high school and scholarship programs including the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation, LINK and Midtown Feeder Award. 

Nativity School Results
The Jesuit Nativity schools within the Network have consistently proven themselves as instruments of faith that do justice in the service of others.

• Average daily attendance rate for Nativity schools: 97 percent

• Average daily attendance rate at Chicago Jesuit Academy (thru 5.09): 98 percent
• 94 percent of Jesuit Nativity alumni earn a high school diploma
• 89 percent of Jesuit Nativity alumni who earn a high school diploma enroll in a college or university

Nativity alumni have earned admission to outstanding colleges and universities including:

Chicago Jesuit Academy prepares all of its students to succeed in college-prep high schools. After high school, the Academy expects all of our alumni to attend a college or university that will enable them to further develop their personal, professional and academic talents.

Our commitment to our students extends beyond middle school to include graduate support for our alumni during high school and the transition to college. Young men who attend the Academy will be the next generation of leaders in the City of Chicago.