OVERVIEW>>
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School was founded in fall, 1996, by Jesuits from the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus, often referred to as Jesuits. The private college preparatory school, the 46th Jesuit high school in the United States, was opened to serve the needs of the Hispanic immigrant population on the southwest side of the city, an area that suffered from an overpopulated public high school and remarkably high dropout rates. The Jesuits knew that families in the neighborhood would not be able to pay the tuition necessary to keep the doors open a private high school, so they developed a corporate internship program to help fund the school and to give students work experience in a variety of corporations in the city. Cristo Rey now serves 500 students per year (many of whom subsidize their tuition with financial aid from the school) in a state-of-the-art campus on the southwest side. The Corporate Internship Program has been replicated and now serves as the ceterpiece of Cristo Rey model high schools across the United States. Cristo Rey Jesuit High School happily provides a home for the midwest offices of the Cristo Rey Network of Schools.

CONTACT>>
www.cristorey.net
Rev. James G. Gartland, S.J.
President
1852 West 22nd Place
Chicago, IL 60608
(773) 890-6800
Phone : (773) 890-6800
Fax: (773) 890-6801
e-mail: jgartland@cristorey.net

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RECENT HEADLINES>>

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 13, 2006
"Marquette program to aid club"
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PARTNERS Magazine
Fall, 2004
"Risk and Reward: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and the Cristo Rey Network"
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CBS 60 Minutes
October 27, 2004
"In a class by Itself"
By: Vicki Mabrey
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