Welcome to Nativity Preparatory School

Nativity Preparatory School is a private, tuition-free day school for boys in Grades 5-8, providing a structured, challenging, and supportive educational program for students of all faiths in the New Bedford area. Founded in the Catholic tradition by a group of lay people interested in education, Nativity Prep seeks to foster the intellectual, spiritual, moral, social, and athletic growth of its students, and to nurture in a small school setting the full potential of their whole character. Our mission is to help boys of promise and desire become lifelong learners who will contribute productively to the world they inherit. The school’s faculty and staff work closely with students’ families and other volunteers, building ties between school and community, and developing the kinds of personal and institutional support that will ensure the continuing success of Nativity students in high school, college, and later life.

Everyone involved with Nativity Prep contributes time, energy, and talent to a school community promoting individual success through good leadership and the cooperative support of its members. Within clearly defined community standards, devoted teachers care for each student as an individual, while dedicated students learn to respect themselves as well as the human dignity and rights of others. At Nativity Prep, however, self-esteem is considered not a right, but a result of demonstrated good character, hard effort, and genuine achievement. Pride in personal success will be tempered by humility and humane concern for those less fortunate and will follow the Jesuit model “men and women for others.”