LVs Serving Here
Elsa Tesfai (2nd Year)
Elsa serves as a member of the Corporate Internship staff, providing mentoring, helping with transportation to and from student job sites and as a link between the corporations and the school. In addition, Elsa coaches girls’ soccer.
Michelle Chan
Michelle serves as a member of the Corporate Internship staff, providing mentoring, helping with transportation to and from student job sites and as a link between the corporations and the school.
De La Salle North Catholic is a co-educational Lasallian Cristo Rey High School in North Portland, Oregon. The school serves only low income students, of whom over 60% qualify for free and reduced lunch. It provides a unique Corporate Internship Program, giving all its students employment opportunities while they receive a college preparatory high school experience. This work program funds approximately 70% of the tuition for the student. Each week, students work in the internship program one day and complete their schooling during the other four extended days.
Each year approximately 70 co-ed freshmen arrive from local neighborhoods mostly from low to lower middle class families in North and Northeast Portland. The school is racially diverse and about 50 percent of the students are not Catholic. 2005 marked the school’s first graduating class.