LVs Serving Here
Mark Barry
Mark serves as an 8th grade teacher, and he is a coach and after school coordinator.
Mary Hizon
Mary serves as a 6th grade teacher, and she is a coach and after school coordinator.
Joanny Latouche
Joanny serves as a T.A. for the 7th grade and is involved in coaching and
after school activities.
The San Miguel School is a community of compassion that provides an innovative, Lasallian middle school for low income, at-risk students in one of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. The school seeks to provide an education that liberates and empowers children and families emotionally, psychologically, socially, academically, and spirituality, so that they are able to break out of the cycle of poverty, gangs, and violence.
The primarily Hispanic neighborhood faces many challenges: 80% of adults over age 25 do not have a high school diploma or equivalency; 44% do not have a ninth grade education; the median household income is nearly half the national average; 85% of the children come from low-income families, qualifying for free or reduced lunch; most children entering San Miguel in sixth grade read at a second or third grade level; children walk with fear on the streets and cannot cross certain blocks because of gang boundaries.
Chicago was the second San Miguel School.