The high school corporate America built

March 31, 2015

Most students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore live in poverty, but every graduate goes on to college

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The high school corporate America built

Cristo Rey is a small private Jesuit high school that touts small class sizes, strict discipline and a focused learning environment. All students who finish go on to college – compared to a national average of 66 percent. How do the kids, from some of Baltimore's toughest neighborhoods, afford the tuition? More than 100 private donors have jumped on board with the program. But there's a snag to this success story. One in four kids drops out of the program. And some critics charge that the school is siphoning off the best and the brightest, diverting the most invested families away from public schools.


 

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