San Miguel High School (Tucson, Arizona)

San Miguel High School opened in 2004 to assist capable students from families of limited means to prepare for college. It follows the Cristo Rey work-study model, whereby students work in businesses five days a month to earn 40% of their tuition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanmiguelcristorey.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=442326&type=d&pREC_ID=955918|title=FAQ – About Us – San Miguel High School|website=www.sanmiguelcristorey.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-12}} In its first nine years, the school had 492 graduates, all of whom were admitted to college. Current enrollment is 296, with 71 on the staff. About 97% of the students are Hispanic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanmiguelcristorey.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443382&type=d&pREC_ID=963387|title=School Profile – Academics – San Miguel High School|website=www.sanmiguelcristorey.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-12}}

A total of 24 credits are required for graduation, as is participation in the Corporate Internship program. Four credits are required in English, mathematics, religious studies, and science; three in foreign language and social studies; and one in visual/performing arts and in academic skills/literacy.

There are currently over 100 corporate partners that employ San Miguel students as part of the [https://www.cristoreynetwork.org/ national Cristo Rey Network Corporate Work Study program].{{Cite news|url=http://www.kvoa.com/story/36875835/san-miguel-high-students-impress-in-sports-journalism|title=San Miguel High Students Impress In Sports & Journalism|last=Cicala|first=Paul|access-date=2018-01-08|language=en|archive-date=2018-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109180849/http://www.kvoa.com/story/36875835/san-miguel-high-students-impress-in-sports-journalism|url-status=dead}} Videos are available on various aspects of the San Miguel experience.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanmiguelcristorey.org/apps/video/|title=Video Gallery {{!}} San Miguel High School|website=www.sanmiguelcristorey.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-08}}

All students make a daylong retreat in each of the first three years and in the senior year a three-day Kairos retreat.{{Cite web|url=http://www.onelasallista.info/Home/campus-ministryly|title=Campus Ministry - Mr. Meyer's Lasallian ministry and education pages|website=www.onelasallista.info|access-date=2018-01-08|archive-date=2018-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109064253/http://www.onelasallista.info/Home/campus-ministryly|url-status=dead}} The school also offers a five-day border immersion program, El Otro Lado, for students and staff to become informed and to strengthen their Christian perspective on the US-Mexican border problem.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanmiguelcristorey.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443582&type=d&pREC_ID=956726|title=Home – El Otro Lado – San Miguel High School|website=www.sanmiguelcristorey.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-08}}

Athletics:

• Women's
• Cheer
• Soccer
• Softball
• Volleyball
• Men's
• Baseball
• Volleyball
• Basketball
• Soccer[https://www.sanmiguelcristorey.org/apps/departments/?show=ath Athletics. Retrieved 11 January 2017.]

Clubs:

• Rocketry
• Robotics
• Student Government (Freshman Council, Sophomore Council, Junior Council, Senior Council, and Executive Council)
• El Otro Lado
• Yearbook
• School Choir
• Ambassadors
• Honor Societies (National Spanish Society, National English Society, and National Honors Society)
• Environmental Club
• Bahay Pag-asa
• Racing The Sun
• Baking
• KINO Teens
• Aquaponics
• Lasallian Youth
• Liturgy Choir
• Student Ambassadors Program

• 42% of families in the area earn less than $25,000 per year
• half of the adults in the area do not have a high school education{{Cite news|url=http://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/top_stories/students-get-academic-real-world-training-at-san-miguel-high/article_db16f396-00eb-11e1-a937-001cc4c002e0.html|title=Students get academic, real-world training at San Miguel High School|work=Inside Tucson Business|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en}}
• 80% of students qualify for free lunch.
• 80% of students are the first in their families to go to college.
• 63% of students attend a four-year university or college.
• 72% of San Miguel graduates have either graduated from college or are persisting in college, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Report 2015.

{{Reflist}}

• 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. {{ISBN|978-0-82-942576-5}}

• [http://www.cristoreynetwork.org/page.cfm?p=366 Partners - Cristo Rey Network]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120202112544/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-12-11/news/0812100589_1_cristo-rey-network-presidential-citizens-medal-rev-john-foley "Fr. John P. Foley honored with Presidential Citizen's Medal"]
• [http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2004/11/30/with_sense_of_purpose_students_cut_class_for_a_day?pg=full Boston Globe - "With sense of purpose, students cut class for a day"]
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202605.html?sub=AR Cristo Rey featured in Washington Post column by George Will]
• [http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2003/05/New-CollegePreparatory-High-Schools Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - "Success of Innovative Urban Catholic School Sparks Major Investment"]

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