The following is a re-post of “What one Catholic school in East L.A. is doing to serve its Latino students” published by America: The Jesuit Review.
Latinos are severely underrepresented in Catholic education. But at Dolores Mission School in East Los Angeles, the story is different.
Meet the faces behind the Jesuit run school seeking to form young men and women for others. They serve an overwhelmingly Latino and low-income community and are doing what Catholic education must do in order to remain relevant to the future of the Church.
What does the Church have to gain from integrating Latinos into their schools? Everything.
Mission & Vision
Dolores Mission School is a Catholic parish grade school (TK-8) committed to serving low-income families in Los Angeles. Together with the family, we strive to educate the whole child, academically, spiritually, physically, and morally, in a nurturing environment.
Our students and their families are part of a larger faith community with a rich cultural identity. As an integral part of a Jesuit parish, our goal is to empower our children to rise out of poverty by becoming educated leaders in their community, “women and men for and with others.”
