South Carolina Business Review
Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min · 5 segments
Mike Switzer interviews Joanna Wusinich, president and CEO of the Cristo Rey Charleston High School in North Charleston, SC.
Mike SwitzerHostSo Crew Star Ray Charleston High School is a brand new school that's going to be located in North Charleston.
We open next school year and we're going to be serving 9th through 12th graders across the Tri-County area.
And this will actually be the 42nd Cristo Rey Model School in the United States.
What makes them distinctive is that we are private college prep schools that exclusively serve families with limited financial means.
And the way that we make our tuition affordable is that we have this really unique partnership with the business community and our students have professional paid internships one day a week every week all four years of their high school experience that ultimately offset the cost of a private education but more importantly they make it possible for our students to really start to get a vision for a career and learn professional skills, both hard and soft skills, and also build what will be a really powerful network of professionals that ultimately become lifelong mentors for our students.
So Crew Star Ray Charleston High School is a brand new school that's going to be located in North Charleston.
We open next school year and we're going to be serving 9th through 12th graders across the Tri-County area.
And this will actually be the 42nd Cristo Rey Model School in the United States.
What makes them distinctive is that we are private college prep schools that exclusively serve families with limited financial means.
And the way that we make our tuition affordable is that we have this really unique partnership with the business community and our students have professional paid internships one day a week every week all four years of their high school experience that ultimately offset the cost of a private education but more importantly they make it possible for our students to really start to get a vision for a career and learn professional skills, both hard and soft skills, and also build what will be a really powerful network of professionals that ultimately become lifelong mentors for our students.
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