The Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is a religious order of priests and brothers in the Roman Catholic Church.
It was founded in 1540 by a small group of college roommates at the University of Paris with a desire to be of greatest possible service to the mission of the Church. They soon discovered that one of greatest needs was for higher education. When the Jesuits arrived in the United States in the late 18th century, they had already been in the business of quality education for almost 200 years.
A desire to be of greatest possible service to the mission of the Church.
Today, the network of American Jesuit high schools educates approximately 44,000 young men and women yearly. Well over 95% of their graduates continue education at the college level. Almost all of the schools are in major metropolitan areas. However, all but a few serve mostly upper-middle class populations.