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Administration
Joseph Pagnozzi,  President
 
I am extremely honored to be given the opportunity and responsibility to help in the formation and growth of the Montfort Academy. My thirty-five years in the education profession have provided reason for why a classical Roman Catholic school is so needed. This academy is one where the Trivium method of grammar, logic, debate and rhetoric and where the loyalty to the Church’s Magisterium is practiced. I bring my extensive education and skill to The Montfort Academy. This skill has been achieved through a passionate dedication to education, practiced at the elementary, special educational, secondary, and college levels. I dedicate this pedagogy to The Montfort Academy.
 
What happens at The Montfort Academy?
 
For four years, The Montfort Academy student is immersed in Western Civilization, studying the best that man has thought, said, and done in the world.  He sees; she hears; they experience the progress of man and participate in what Columbia University professor Mortimer Adler called “The Great Conversation,” which has continued down through the ages. 
 
The Montfort Academy is committed to this Roman Catholic Classical approach to education:
  • a proven program of formation in virtue based on a curriculum faithful to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church
  • a truly classical program based on the trivium of grammar, logic,  debate and rhetoric; the quadrivium-related subjects of astronomy, geography, civics, mathematics and the Great Books
  • a corporal works of mercy program that spans the globe from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka
  • baseball, soccer and basketball teams that have been tournament champions three years in a row
  • a music ensemble, a chorus, active participation in the study and practice of music and art
  • a distinguished speaker series that has featured a United States Senator, a Catholic theologian and physicist of The Pontifical Academy of Sciences,  a NYC police commissioner, a world-renowned poet, and a world-renowned concert pianist to Pope Benedict XVI
  • archeological expeditions to Tuscany, Sicily, Calabria, Abruzzo and Rome
In its short, seven year history, The Montfort Academy has been named for four consecutive years one of the 50 best Catholic high schools in the country.  It has received a prestigious international service award also given to the International Red Cross.  Our students come from Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Fairfield Counties, as well as New York City and all go on to four-year colleges.  One of our students was selected to serve mass with Pope Benedict XVI during the 2008 Papal Visit to New York.
 
Our benefactors recognize The Montfort Academy’s impact in forming our future citizens, professionals, husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers, and the good they will contribute to our community, country, civilization, and world.