DePaul Cristo Rey is located one block south of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College at the former German-language Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church (German: Concordia Evangelisch-Lutherisch Kirche),[3] which disbanded on August 23, 2009, a year after closing its elementary school.[4] In November 2009, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati purchased the building and grounds with the intention of establishing a Cristo Rey school.[5]
DePaul Cristo Rey was dedicated June 5, 2011, and welcomed its first freshman class on August 17, 2011,[6] to become Cincinnati's first new Catholic school since La Salle, Moeller, and McAuley High Schools opened in 1960.[7]
Work-study
Following the Cristo Rey model, DePaul Cristo Rey's Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP) partners with over 90 local businesses and community organizations in a one-of-a-kind program in Greater Cincinnati. Students go to school four days a week and work one day at a business or organization helping to finance their own private, college-prep high school education as they grow professionally and personally working side-by-side with adults in workplaces around the region. In the nine years since the first class graduated (in 2015), every senior, every year has been accepted to college.
References
^Although located within the geographic boundaries of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Public Schools, DePaul Cristo Rey is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.
^Amos, Denise Smith (2009-11-04). "New Catholic school selects site". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company.
^Amos, Denise Smith (2011-08-06). "DePaul Cristo Rey students get down to business". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Retrieved 2011-08-16. Two weeks before DePaul Cristo Rey High officially opens its doors as Cincinnati's first new Catholic high school in over 50 years, some in its first freshman class are already getting a case of the jitters.
