Our Lady of Fatima is a Catholic Community that educates children to become followers of Jesus Christ, outstanding leaders, and stewards of our Christian faith.
We are dedicated to providing a safe and caring environment that enriches our students’ lives through an academically challenging and structured curriculum. Our high expectations of our students are equal to our high expectations of our teachers. These expectations include appropriate behavior, dress, and compliance with the character values of respect, responsibility, self-control, honesty, compassion, generosity, reverence, tolerance, and forgiveness.
We expect and promote a constant relationship with parents, believing this unity to be important to the proper education of all students.
Fatima proudly emphasizes basic and higher level Reading, Writing, and Mathematics skills that allow our children to excel in all academic disciplines.
We understand that achievement of academic success is different for all children. To assist in each child's development, we provide resources for students at various levels of learning and development through our Resource Teacher. Fatima also has a school counselor contracted through St. Raphael Counseling. Fatima stresses an environment that reinforces the ability to make age appropriate choices and foster positive communication and education.
Students at Fatima consistently out-perform public schools and many parochial and private schools, both locally and nationally. Fatima’s 8th grade student standardized test scores consistently average two grade levels above the national average.
"A longitudinal research study found that in 8th grade, the most important predictor of 12th grade GPA was student grades, followed by academic achievement, psychosocial, and behavioral factors."
~ Act.org, 2015
We believe the academic education of our children during these formative, pre-high school years must provide measurably accomplished achievement. Fatima students are taught how to participate in the classroom, exposed to public speaking, and encouraged to engage politely with other students and adults. The combination of academic, spiritual, and psychological education best prepares our middle schoolers for high school.
In 2017, two former Fatima students achieved the highest scores on the Freshman Math Placement Test for Lakewood High School.
In 2018, three students received the Mullen scholarship. Only 10 are given out each year and this is the first time in Mullen's history that three have been given to one school in one year.