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“I admire all the Cristo Rey students who do all of their schoolwork to keep their grades up…”
Chris Call, Science teacher
Work Prepared

Terry Brady, President, Underwriters Laboratories
Committed to Faith and Justice

Dulce Zarinana, CRSM ’16, Carthage College ’20, current DePaul University graduate student, Jesuit Volunteer Corps immigration legal advocate
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Business Partners

100%
Acceptance to Bachelor’s Programs

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News & Updates
CRSM Founders’ Dinner Celebrates Long-time Supporters Ed and Dorothy Wehmer and Others Helping Students to Write New Chapters
Over 180 guests raised more than $520,000 Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the Founders’ Dinner benefiting CRSM students as they strive to create new stories on their journey to adulthood. At the event, “Writing New Chapters,” the CRSM community honored Ed and Dorothy...
Former Financial Services Exec Helps Students “turn their dreams into reality.”
For 30 years, Mari-Lou Menezes worked with client companies to develop and implement strategic plans to support their working capital needs and growth including their access to capital markets. As an executive director for JPMorgan Chase & Co. in downtown Chicago,...
CRSM Students Stage Fundraiser for Immigrant Support Home
Students honored Holy Thursday with a special “casual dress day” fundraiser. Sponsored by the OPT Club, (Oportunidades Para Todos/Opportunities for All), students were allowed to dress in casual clothes, instead of their usual dress code standards, in exchange for a...
CRSM Founders’ Dinner Celebrates Long-time Supporters Ed and Dorothy Wehmer and Others Helping Students to Write New Chapters
Over 180 guests raised more than $520,000 Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the Founders’ Dinner benefiting CRSM students as they strive to create new stories on their journey to adulthood. At the event, “Writing New Chapters,” the CRSM community honored Ed and Dorothy...
Former Financial Services Exec Helps Students “turn their dreams into reality.”
For 30 years, Mari-Lou Menezes worked with client companies to develop and implement strategic plans to support their working capital needs and growth including their access to capital markets. As an executive director for JPMorgan Chase & Co. in downtown Chicago,...
Alumni Spotlights
All in the Family
During her salutatorian speech eight years ago, Anissa Garza shared that graduating from Cristo Rey was a triumph for her whole family. Today, those words have never rung truer for the first-generation student, her two younger brothers, and parents. All their lives,...
Alumna Talks About Humanity, Immigration at TEDxHopeCollege
Last February, Venecia Rodriquez took the TEDxHope College stage, where she joined other speakers sharing their stories at the renowned event themed “The Threshold.”
A Day in the Life
Meet Ashley Fonseca, CRSM Class of ’22. At Augustana College in Rock Island, IL you will find her preparing for a career as a veterinarian, working out, or she could be found exploring new opportunities in the college’s crochet club and the LatinXUnidos club. She’s also an intern at a nearby animal clinic.
All in the Family
During her salutatorian speech eight years ago, Anissa Garza shared that graduating from Cristo Rey was a triumph for her whole family. Today, those words have never rung truer for the first-generation student, her two younger brothers, and parents. All their lives,...
Alumna Talks About Humanity, Immigration at TEDxHopeCollege
Last February, Venecia Rodriquez took the TEDxHope College stage, where she joined other speakers sharing their stories at the renowned event themed “The Threshold.”

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In and out of the classroom, we are committed to students getting to and through college. For five consecutive years, CRSM has been named by the Wall Street Journal as one of “America’s Most Challenging High Schools.”



From soccer and volleyball to theater and volunteering to feed and clothe the homeless, we offer a variety of ways for students to get involved.
