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Across the country, the math achievement gap is widening—not because top students are accelerating, but because the lowest-performing students are falling further behind.

Across the country, the math achievement gap is widening—not because top students are accelerating, but because the lowest-performing students are falling further behind.

Strong foundations make everything possible. Today, Daniel Rodriguez is building the future because San Miguel helped build his.

It isn’t every day that the president of San Miguel School is summoned overseas for his duties. But in December, Dr. David Palank traded San Miguel’s Georgia Avenue campus for Rome to join an international coalition of Lasallian leaders to discuss the future of the mission of St. John Baptist de La Salle.

San Miguel eighth grader Linus was named a Cooke Young Scholar, a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. He is the third San Miguel student in three consecutive years to receive the award. The highly selective scholarship is awarded to about 60 high-achieving students nationwide each year. Linus follows in the footsteps of Simon (Class of 2025) who is now a freshman at St. John’s College High School, and Lander (Class of 2024) who is a sophomore at St. Ansel

The Ceres Foundation has awarded San Miguel School a three-year, $450,000 grant that serves as a catalyst for Project North Star—the strategic plan to expand Graduate Support and serve even more alumni on their path to college and career. This pivotal investment enables San Miguel to begin growing its counseling team and greatly enhances how the school will be able to measure and sustain impact for alumni. San Miguel’s Graduate Support Program was formalized in 2015 to accomp

One of the first lessons San Miguel students learn when they arrive is unconventional for a city middle school: how to pitch a tent. Yet this skill proves critical in one of the first of many beloved traditions San Miguel students enjoy at the start of the year. For two days in early September, students and faculty take learning far outside the classroom, setting up camp in Maryland’s Patapsco Valley State Park for San Miguel’s annual camping trip. This year, long stretches o