It is a multiethnic, multi-religious, coeducational school that offers a four-year academic, college preparatory and religious education curriculum.

The first semester of its initial year was conducted at the newly completed Bishop Kearney High School, as Nazareth’s building was unfinished.

In the spring of 1963, Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart dedicated the new building, and the first class of freshmen and small faculty moved into their own school.

He and the other Xaverian Brothers and Catholic laymen who administered and staffed the school centered its goals around the theme “wisdom, age, and favor with God” because these were the qualities of Jesus as described in Scripture as he grew up in the town of Nazareth.

The school faced financial difficulties in 2012; it was feared it would close at the end of the academic year due to a decline in enrollment and overwhelming debt.