Hispanic Recruitment Initiative

Thanks to a generous gift from the Birmingham Foundation, in October 2008 the Catholic Schools Foundation instituted a program to increase Hispanic enrollment in the elementary and secondary Catholic schools in the city of Boston and various surrounding cities. This initiative seeks to provide Catholic Hispanic families with the tools to take advantage of the opportunities that are available through a Catholic education by offering extended support as well as scholarship aid to those students that are accepted and choose to attend a Catholic School within the city of Boston and surrounding towns.

Consider the facts....     • In Boston, Latino enrollment has steadily increased with Latino students making up 37% of public school attendants compared to just 9% in Boston Catholic Schools in 2008-2009 • Most Hispanics agree that they would prefer to send their children to a Catholic School. • More than one quarter of Latino students that start in 9th grade in MA public schools drop out of school before graduation. That is, one out of every four Hispanics do not graduate from Boston Public Schools. • The Hispanic Recruitment efforts of the ICSF increased enrollment in Boston’s Catholic Schools by 10% in the 2009-2010 school year.