Home of the Globally Conscious and Globally Competitive!!!
Home of the Globally Conscious and Globally Competitive!!!
The Eagle Academy Foundation, founded in 2005,is a non-profit organization that develops and supports a network of all male, grades 6 through 12, college-preparatory schools in challenged, urban communities. We educate and mentor young men into future leaders committed to excellence in character, scholastic achievement, and community service, and we promote these principles nationally. The Foundation raises funds and resources to support programs at each of the schools. For more information, please go to https://eafny.org/
From an early vision, detailed in an eighty-page document, the Eagle Academy for Young Men at Ocean Hill would emerge. It was 2008, a time when the notion of a single gender public school was unfamiliar to most, and one specific to address the needs of young men of color in New York City was especially inconceivable. While this was good in theory, earning the trust of prospective families and convincing them that we were designed for their sons was an immense task. That September, fourteen educators rose to the occasion as our doors officially opened to sixty-five black and brown sixth-grade boys.
At the time, we did not fathom that our approach would transform urban education. Instead, we did what needed to be done. We had to be dynamic. We knew the strategy that worked on a given day may never work again. Our efforts would not always mirror what was outlined in the new school proposal, or what was prescribed protocol from Tweed. A scholar's unique circumstance had to be met with an equally unique response. This is the work! Fifteen years later, we are continuing the charge.
Over these years, we have grown from just a middle school into a 6-12, and graduated seven cohorts of young men into adulthood. Our young men have earned millions of dollars in college scholarships. They have designed community gardens and have traveled across this hemisphere for service projects. They've had internships at TV studios, investment banks, and construction sites. They have won PSAL championships. They have performed at the Democratic National Convention. They have worked together to help their Eagle brothers through difficult classes and difficult moments.
At the advent of the 2022-2023 school year, we continue to reflect on a journey that has included successes and challenges, highs and lows, and caused its share of blood, sweat and tears. The challenges of Covid-19 have tested the strength of our community in ways we could have never imagined. But one thing has not changed. The enthusiasm of raising our boys to men still motivates us as it did when Eagle was merely a concept.
A structure is only as good as its foundation. At our core are committed educators, who share in the belief that a supportive school family and access to opportunity will inspire change. We are upheld by parents who believe in us as our first parents did. We are comprised of young men who identify themselves as brothers.
Eagle Ocean Hill is not confined to the building in which we operate. We are more than our mantras, more than our Five Pillars, more than our six Houses. We are a family dedicated to ensuring that all of our boys reach their full potential as Globally Conscious, Globally Competitive Eagle Scholars.
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