After graduation, the idea of coming back to school doesn’t sound like an option. However, there are a handful whose paths lead them back to Kenny.

There are currently 32 alumni that actively work at Kenny: 21 are teachers and 11 are administration and staff members, though some administrators additionally teach a class.

As a Catholic school, it makes sense that there are multiple alumni who return to teach the faith.

One of them is Matthew Rocha, who graduated from Kenny in 2005.

“I have really good memories as a student here,” Rocha said. “So to come back and be a part of that again was really a big part of why I came back.”

He now teaches the freshman in Religion 1, encouraging them to seek out the faith further as he relates his own high school experience.

“I use my experiences that I had when I was a student,” Rocha said. “I can improve on them to hopefully make the faith more tangible for my students.”

There are many other religion teachers that graduated from Kenny, including Carlos Gonzalez-Chavez, Matthew Sills and Robert Sims (who serves as Religion Department Chair).

Of all of the departments, the most alumni are from the English department, where seven out of 15 teachers graduated from Kenny. In the science department, only one out of the 10 teachers, Taylor Malewicki, is an alum.

Some alumni, like Grace Isaac, returned to Kenny soon after earning a degree. Isaac graduated in Class of 2019 from Kenny, and returned in 2023 to teach English 1.

“I always knew I wanted to become a teacher, but I didn’t know in the cards to be at Kenny,” Isaac said.

Isaac explained that when she was a student, she held her teachers at a very high standard; one that she now gets to live up to today.

“It was very surreal to come back and feel worthy to teach here,” Isaac said.

Vice Principal Michael Broach, who graduated Class of 1999, has been at Kenny for 24 years since.

Broach became Vice Principal in 2021. As such, he strives to direct the integration of the mission statement in the school.

“It’s a nice sentiment because Mr. Orlando trusts me to make sure all those things are running,” Broach said.

He first returned as a substitute teacher in 2002, joined the faculty and taught history by 2004, and became an academic dean in 2016.

Throughout his time here, Broach says that the school has changed “tremendously,” with much expansion, renovation and faith formation.

“I feel like our Catholic identity has become much stronger in these last ten years,” Broach said. “That’s the most important piece.”