Fordham Preparatory School is a Catholic Jesuit all-boys high school located on the historic Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx. The school”™s mission is to form leaders in faith, scholarship, and service through a college preparatory education.
The Fordham Prep experience includes a faith formation program which allows all students, regardless of religious background, to learn more about themselves and their place in this world. It includes opportunities to celebrate the Mass daily, individual prayer and reflection, retreats, and religious studies classes.
Each Fordham Prep student, by virtue of their acceptance, is placed into the school”™s “Individualized Honors Program”. This program allows students to choose classes that are challenging and meet their individual needs. It includes honors, advanced honors, and 21 Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Students also have access to the school”™s new iSTEAM program, a cross-curricular program that gives students the opportunity to work with new technologies including aviation, engineering, gaming, medical research, and robotics. The program includes both academic classes and co-curricular clubs and activities. Qualified seniors can also take classes at Fordham University”™s Rose Hill Campus, earning college credit while still in high school.
As a Catholic Jesuit institution, Fordham Prep is committed to forming “men for others”. All students must complete a four year service requirement in order to graduate. This includes group projects in their freshman and sophomore years and individual projects as both a junior and a senior. As part of their service project, students may choose to participate in service immersion trips to New Jersey, Tennessee, and Ecuador.
In 2015, the school launched their Global Education Program to help prepare students to live and work in a global society. This includes dedicated school exchanges with other Jesuit schools in Australia, Ireland, and Italy, cultural trips to Canada, China, and Cuba, medical missions to Guatemala, and ecological trips to Belize, Costa Rica, and the Galapagos Islands. Through the Global Education and Service Programs, Fordham Prep students serve and study on six different continents.
Fordham Prep offers over 70 different co-curricular activities in a variety of disciplines including art, astronomy, chess, cyber patriot, dramatics, frisbee, marine biology, ping-pong, and speech and debate. The school also has one of the most successful interscholastic athletic programs in New York City with over 60 city and state team and individual championships since 2010. The Rams take advantage of their relationship with their Rose Hill Campus neighbors, Fordham University, by receiving access to many of their NCAA Division I facilities.
The Fordham Prep Class of 2023 was accepted at over 240 unique colleges and universities including Amherst, Boston College, Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Manhattan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Manhattan College, Middlebury, Notre Dame, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, United States Naval Academy, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, and Villanova.
Fordham Prep attracts students from over 150 unique zip codes in the tri-state area and is located a short walk from the Botanical Garden and Fordham stations on Metro-North.
