A Valuable Investment
The mission of La Salle Academy (LSA), Manhattan, is to educate young men of diverse cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds with special outreach to those most in need.
We provide a nurturing environment, which fosters spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional and physical growth in the Catholic tradition and the LaSallian spirit, as embodied in St. John Baptist de La Salle. We create experiences of community within the school and encourage each student to develop his gifts and talents for his own growth, as well as to engage in the caring service of others.
La Salle Academy Fast Facts
Did You Know?
• LSA is the oldest continuously operating Lasallian school in the U.S.
• LSA is the third oldest Catholic high school in New York City, and it has provided educational, spiritual and athletic excellence to young men for over 160 years.
• LSA is recognized by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges and accredited by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon National School of Excellence.
• Student/faculty ratio is 13:1.
• Average class size is 23.
• 65 percent of faculty and staff hold a master’s degree or higher.
• LSA represents a variety of cultures: 60 percent Hispanic, 19 percent African American, 13 percent Caucasian/European and eight percent Asian.
• LSA has won eight city titles in basketball.
• LSA has won two city titles in baseball.
• Over eight alumni have excelled in professional sports from basketball, baseball, soccer and the Olympics.
• LSA meets the needs of those families that want to send their boys to an affordable, private, all-boys Catholic college preparatory school in New York City.
• LSA is one of over 80 schools within the U.S., including seven colleges/universities and hundreds more worldwide.
• “The value of what you invest now will produce dividends when your son graduates from high school.”