Jesuit High Schools

Among the 48 Jesuit high schools in the United States, Georgetown Preparatory School, founded in 1789, is the oldest and the sole remaining Jesuit boarding-day school in the country. Two new Jesuit high schools have been established since the start of the 21st century, Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver (2003) and Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento (2006). Both are modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School founded in 1996 by the Jesuits of the Chicago Province to serve the immigrant families of that city’s near southwest side. A third such school, Verbum Dei, became jointly sponsored by the California Province of the Society of Jesus and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2005. Cristo Rey schools are known as “schools that work” because they incorporate into their college preparatory program a work study program that helps to finance their students’ education.

Jesuit high schools form the institutional membership of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA), headquartered in Washington, D.C. JSEA links these schools with the wider community of both public and private secondary education in the United States as well as with the educational institutions of the Society of Jesus worldwide. Links to Jesuit high schools as well as additional information and resources relating to Jesuit high schools can be found at JSEA’s online community.


California Province (7)

Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose, CA
Brophy College Prep, Phoenix, AZ
Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento, CA
Jesuit High School, Sacramento, CA
Loyola High School, Los Angeles, CA
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, CA
Verbum Dei High School, Los Angeles, CA