Baltimore Archdiocese announces opening of new Catholic high school

Published: 2006-02-03

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A new independent Catholic high school that incorporates college preparatory academics with a corporate work-study program is set to open in 2007 in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. It will be the first new high school to open in the archdiocese in 40 years. Sponsored by the Maryland province of the Jesuits, the coeducational school will be located in Baltimore and will focus on the needs of teens from low-income, urban families. The school, part of the Cristo Rey Network, will partner with corporations and local businesses to allow students to work at least one day a week in a profession where they will earn more than 70 percent of their tuition. It will open with a freshman class of 100, adding one class a year and reaching a maximum enrollment of 500 by 2012, according to Jesuit Father William J. Watters, board chair for the project and former pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore.

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