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- Comprised of 38 Catholic, college- and career-preparatory schools that today serve 12,000 students across 24 states and collectively claim 18,000 graduates, the Cristo Rey Network delivers a powerful and innovative approach to inner-city education that equips students from families of limited economic means with the knowledge, character, and skills to transform their lives.
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SCHOOLS. Our 40 career focused, college preparatory schools across 24 states enroll 12,300+ students nation-wide. In partnership with 34 sponsoring groups, our campuses are Catholic in identity and mission, true to the religious charism of their respective order. View Cristo Rey Network School Map.
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The Cristo Rey Network is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2000 to increase the number of schools modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, which was founded in 1996 to prepare youth from low-income families for post-secondary educational opportunities.
The Cristo Rey Network® is the only network of high schools in the country that integrate four years of rigorous college preparatory academics with four years of professional work experience through the Corporate Work Study Program.
- Six Bullets
- Father Foley Comes Home
- Blue-Chip Partners
- The Network Is Launched
- A New Twist
- ‘Greatest School on The West Side’
Cristo Rey was built for young people like Andy Laureano. Now 23, he remembers gang violence as a fact of life growing up in Little Village. “There was a drive-by [shooting] on our street,” he recalled. “Six bullets penetrated our house. I remember cops beating up gangbangers in front of the house.” Longing to escape the neighborhood, Laureano saw ...
Enter the Rev. John Foley, SJ. After 34 years in Peru, working primarily in education with the poor, Foley was invited to return to his hometown of Chicago in 1995 to lead the team that was launching the new school. “I think any reasonable person would have been intimidated,” said Foley, who served as the founding president of both Cristo Rey Jesui...
More than 1,500 partner businesses provide the internships for Cristo Rey, including such blue-chip names as Blue Cross Blue Shield, Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Raytheon and Wells Fargo. The companies tend to be thoroughly satisfied with the students, with 93 percent re-enlisting for the program each year. When businesses do pull out, it’s usually no...
Cristo Rey Jesuit and its work-study program were so successful that within a few years groups from other cities were approaching Foley about how to replicate the school. After receiving a $12 million pledge in 2000 from B.J. Cassin, a venture capitalist, Foley was ready to expand the program. In 2001 he launched the Cristo Rey Network. Two years l...
“We have religious groups talking to each other, talking about what’s the best way to educate the students,” Foley said. “That’s unheard of. The priests and nuns are talking, and they’re talking to brothers. That’s a new twist.” Although the first school was started by the Jesuits, other schools are sponsored by a variety of Catholic orders and ins...
“I was not prepared for the work I was doing as a freshman,” said Larry Carr, 18, now a senior. “I felt like I was behind. I couldn’t keep up with the pace at first.” But with hard work -- both his and his teachers’ -- Carr caught up and then some. After graduation this spring, he hopes to study architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology....
Without Cristo Rey, I would’ve never become the woman I am today. The work-study program at my high school gave me early exposure to the professional world and many of the skills I learned through my jobs there still stick with me to this day.
Centered on an innovative corporate work study model, through which students spend a day a week working with partner companies, low-income students were able to access a high-quality Catholic prep school education. The idea spread like wildfire and the Cristo Rey Network was born, which today includes 39 schools around the country. Fr.
Sweas, Megan, Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education. New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2014 . Google Scholar
