School Bio

Located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Xaverian is a private, co-educational, Catholic, college preparatory school for grades 6-12. Established in 1957, it is one of thirteen schools nationwide sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers. One of New York City’s leading schools for over 60 years, we educate nearly 1,200 students each year. Xaverian has graduated a network of over 17,000 successful and responsible Catholic alumni, educated in the longstanding tradition of the Xaverian Brothers. True to that tradition, we give our students the opportunity to grow in their faith, intellect, leadership skills, musical passions, athletic talents, and much more. The Ryken Program is a New York State approved Private, Secondary School, Special Education Program for students who demonstrate the cognitive capacity to master a rigorous college preparatory program but whose academic performance is significantly hampered by a documented disability that interferes with the capacity to store, process or produce information. These disabilities include but are not limited to, reading, writing, or mathematics disorders, receptive or expressive language impairments, and attention deficit disorder.