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"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley interviews St. Benedict's Prep headmaster Ed Leahy in a feature about the school set to air Sunday.

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"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Sunday takes viewers inside St. Benedict's Preperatory School in Newark, the Catholic prep school whose motto is "Whatever hurts my brother hurts me."

The school is run by headmaster Fr. Edwin Leahy, but he says much of the decision-making rests with the students themselves, a tactic designed to empower the mostly black and Hispanic student body. "It's a population that never gets to have control," Leahy tells Pelley, who visited St. Benedict's over its 11-month school year. "That's a better learning experience for them ... The rule typically is if you're going to make a decision without adult advice, you had better be right."

St. Benedict's success -- the school has a 98 percent graduation rate, and 85 percent earn college degrees -- was also the subject of a 2013 documentary called "The Rule," the 72-chapter philosophy written in the 6th century by St. Benedict of Nursia that emphasizes helping others.

The "60 Minutes" segment features student Andrew Brice, a former foster child who was living on the streets when he snuck into school's natatorium one day and told the water polo coach that he needed help. Brice is now a junior, living at the monastery next to the school and studying to be a dancer. "He's not a quitter," says Bruce Davis, St. Benedict's senior group leader, about Brice. "And that's another motto. Benedict's hates a quitter."

"60 Minutes" airs Sunday at 7 p.m. on CBS.

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