Cristo Rey Project

Province Moves Ahead with Project

On September 29th, 2005 the Baltimore Cristo Rey Study conducted by the Maryland Province of Jesuits was unanimously approved and provisionally accepted into the Cristo Rey Network of high schools. There are currently eleven high schools that make up the network of Catholic high schools and at least six new schools to be starting over the course of 2006 and 2007.

Baltimore’s study showed strong need, desire and capacity for this innovative work-study high school that would serve students from families of modest means. In these schools 70% of the students’ tuition is raised through the work-study program.

The Cristo Rey Network is a national association of 11 high schools that provide quality, Catholic, college preparatory education to young people from low-income families who otherwise could not afford such an opportunity. Member schools have their own identity but are characterized by a curriculum that is tailored to the students’ needs and by the unique Corporate Internship Program developed in 1996 by Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Chicago. Through these corporate internships, each student finances the majority of the cost of his or her education.

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