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Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School

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Coordinates: 37°21′03″N 121°51′47″W / 37.3508°N 121.863°W / 37.3508; -121.863
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Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School
Address
Map
1390 Five Wounds Lane

San Jose
,
California

United States
Coordinates37°21′03″N 121°51′47″W / 37.3508°N 121.863°W / 37.3508; -121.863
Information
TypePrivate high school
Religious affiliation(s)Catholicism
DenominationJesuit
Established2014; 10 years ago (2014)
PresidentSilvia Scandar Mahan
DeanChris Jarrett
PrincipalAndria Bengtson
Grades9-12
GenderCo-educational
Enrollment482 (2020)
Color(s)Yellow, Black
MascotLion
NicknameCristo Rey Lions
AffiliationCristo Rey Network
Websitewww.cristoreysanjose.org
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Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School is a private Catholic high school, located in San Jose, California, in the United States. Founded by the California Province of the Society of Jesus in 2014, the school is a member of the Cristo Rey Network of work-study schools for students from low-income families.[2][3]


Their corporate work-study program involves sending a student once a week to work in a corporate field. The day the student is sent depends on their grade level:

  • Freshman - Wednesday
  • Sophomores - Thursday
  • Juniors - Monday
  • Seniors - Tuesdays
  • Alternating Fridays

There are over 100 corporate partners that they work with including Google, Palo Alto Networks, Stryker, El Camino Health, BILL, Juniper Networks and more. The students, since the age of 14 are allowed to develop their professional skills in a corporate environment with experts in their fields. Students are also able to start building connections young and start their networking which they could use at a later date once they graduate college and are ready to start full time in a corporate work field.

College and Career readiness

CRSJ offers a class to seniors titled CCR which helps them with the college application process. This includes scholarships, Fafsa, applying to all kinds of colleges and universities. They follow their students throughout the entire process, making sure everything is going smoothly and doing everything they possibly can to help students get into their dream schools and find careers that are right for them. Not only do they help students start their college journey, they also help prepare them for the future by giving classes that focus on doing taxes, how to properly save money and how to maneuver college and forming once you get to college.

CRSJ's college and career readiness program also offers an alumni program which follows their alumni into their college life. Helping them with the Fafsa process every year or with which classes to choose or just how to adjust with the big change from high school to college. Alumni advisors also travel to go and visit their alumni once a year to check up on them and make sure everything is going smoothly and they are well adjusting. Every student at CRSJ will be assigned an alumni advisor starting from their second semester of their senior year up until they graduate from university and have established a steady career.


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References

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  1. ^ "Schools profile: 2020-2021". About us. Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School. n.d. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ "San Jose: Cristo Rey school's expansion cheered by Silicon Valley boosters". The Mercury News. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  3. ^ "School Profiles - Cristo Rey Network". www.cristoreynetwork.org. Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
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