5-star Niche reviews showcase The AM Advantage

Albertus Magnus is more than a school; it's a community where students can SOAR! Success-Opportunity-Alumni Networking-Results.  Anchored in the Dominican pillars of Prayer, Study, Community, Service, our entire teAM of Leadership, faculty, staff and coaches are dedicated to encouraging, guiding and supporting students for college and life. 

• No Regents Exams, instead AM developed a standards-based curriculum that is vertically aligned to the Advanced Placement Course of Study.
• 12 Advanced Placements courses, 15 Dual-Enrollment courses and a full Honors curriculum.
• Student-centered learning, absent of academic tracking.
• Core Competencies such as higher-order and creative thinking skills.
• Collaborative teaching and learning.
• Varied modes of assessing Mastery.
• Next Generation & AP learning standards, this past year, our AP students scored higher than New York and New Jersey national averages including 100% scoring in Calculus AB (vs NY 60% and NJ 92%), 100% in Chemistry (vs NY 82% and NJ 80%) and 93% in English Language & Composition (vs NY 53% and NJ 67%). 
• Flexibility with course selection, allowing students to “specialize” in areas of greater interest in the AM Academic Pathways: Business, Engineering and Technology, Health & Medical Science, Performing Arts, Public Service and Visual Arts. 
• Teachers and students can dive deeper into areas of interest in a particular subject matter allowing time for connecting dots rather than simply filling them in as part of a standardized test.