Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School

In 2006, the school was the first in the South selected to join the Cristo Rey Network, and in 2007 officially opened as Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School (HFCR). The Cristo Rey Network is comprised of 33 high schools across the country that provides an innovative, successful, and proven model of secondary education for children most in need. By combining a salary-paying, corporate work-study program with a rigorous academic curriculum, students who normally would not be able to afford a college preparatory education now have a chance to work their way to higher education. In so doing, generational cycles of poverty and violence are broken.