After nearly 3 years of hard work...

a big day for my pastor...

Cradling a statue of St. Martin de Porres, sophomore Miguel Arellano and freshman Miguel Nunoz led 100 schoolmates Monday down Genesee Street in Waukegan to attend class at the first Catholic high school to open in Lake County in more than 40 years.
After a mass at Immaculate Conception Church, the students walked to St. Martin de Porres High School, the seventh high school in the nation to be modeled after the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
The Cristo Rey concept, which combines academics and religious instruction with off-site jobs to defray the annual $8,650 tuition, enables students whose families cannot afford private school to take advantage of a Catholic college-preparatory curriculum. The school in Waukegan opened with 74 freshmen and 26 sophomores.