CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
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Mission Statement
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School provides a Catholic, dual-language, college preparatory education and professional work experience to students from Spanish speaking families with limited financial means.
About This Cause
Founded by the Jesuits in 1996, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is a neighborhood school with the mission of offering the best college preparatory education available to the youth of the Southwest side of Chicago, for whom other private schools are not a financial option. Cristo Rey is able to offer this type of education because of its most innovative component: the Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP). Cristo Rey pioneered the Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP) model for inner-city education that has inspired a national network of over 37 schools serving low-income communities across the country. All students work five days a month in entry-level jobs in Chicago firms to fund nearly 70% of the cost of their education. More than 100 corporations and organizations such as Aon, Chase, CNA, Deloitte, Insurance Auto Auctions, Madison Dearborn Partners, Loyola University Medical Center, and Mayer Brown LLP, participate in the CWSP. While initially serving as simply a financial proposition to pay the operational costs of the school, the CWSP has evolved into a progressive means of providing students with valuable work experience, while simultaneously empowering them to take an active part in financing a major portion of their education. Now in its twentieth-five year, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School remains committed to serving families with limited financial means, who seek out a Jesuit, Catholic and college preparatory education for their children. The school opened its doors with only 70 students and now has grown to over 562. Currently, there are 37 high schools throughout the country that are associated through the Cristo Rey Network and operate using the educational model pioneered for the first Cristo Rey School in Chicago. Cristo Rey now boasts that every one of its graduating seniors is accepted to at least one college.