Cristo Rey De La Salle East Bay High School is a work of the San Francisco New Orleans District of the
De La Salle Brothers. Opened in 2018, it is a member of the national
Cristo Rey Network
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-seconda ...
of work-study schools for underserved
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
Asian American and
African American
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students. The new school occupies the former premises of
St. Elizabeth High School in the
Fruitvale District of Oakland, California, where the majority of the households are currently Hispanic.
The purpose of the school is to provide an affordable, college prep education to needy students in the depressed area of inner-city Oakland, the underserved families of the East Bay.
The athletic program of Cristo Rey participates in the
CIF North Coast Section
The North Coast Section (NCS) is a part of the California Interscholastic Federation, governing the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area, up along the northern coast of the state of California, from Fremont in the south to Crescent C ...
as a non-league affiliate.
References
Further reading
* Kearney, G. R. ''More Than a Dream: The Cristo Rey Story: How One School's Vision Is Changing the World''. Chicago, Ill: Loyola Press, 2008.
External links
Cristo Rey Network
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Cristo Rey Network
Catholic secondary schools in California
Lasallian schools in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2018
Poverty-related organizations
2018 establishments in California