Transforming Lives Through Education

Our Mission

Bellesini Academy is a private, independent Catholic middle school dedicated to providing a quality, scholarship education to boys from limited financial means living in Lawrence. The mission of the school is to provide an academically challenging and highly structured environment that develops the potential for each student to succeed in competitive secondary schools and colleges.

Our Name

Bellesini Academy is named in honor of Stephen Bellesini, a 19th century Augustinian friar who dedicated many years to the education of young boys from disadvantaged families in Italy.  His school in Trentino was known as La Scola Per Gnent, or "The School for Nothing," because it was tuition-free.  Click here to learn more about the life of Stephen Bellesini.

Our Success

Bellesini graduates have been accepted to many of the finest preparatory high schools in the area:

• St. John's Prep
• Central Catholic High School
• Brooks School
• Pingree School
• Austin Prep
• Noble & Greenough
• Groton School
• Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall

Our first three graduating classes have been offered a combined total of over $3 million in scholarship money, making it possible for them to attend these schools at virtually no cost to their families.

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