The network of JSEA member schools educates approximately 48,000 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 and nearly a third are located within the inner city. Jesuit schools strive to educate the whole person, challenging each student to reach his or her fullest potential as a well-rounded individual who is intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice in generous service to the people of God.

Georgetown Preparatory School, founded by Archbishop John Carroll in 1789, has the distinction of being the oldest Jesuit school as well as the only remaining Jesuit boarding high school in the United States. The most recent Jesuit high schools opened in the United States are schools in the Cristo Rey Network. Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston opened in 2009 to serve the economically disadvantaged of Houston, TX.