Cristo Rey High School Sacramento offers a unique tuition model that combines paid internships and support from the Mercy Foundation to help underserved students become first-generation college students.

"Our focus is to get kids who have been traditionally underserved from low-income neighborhoods into college," said Father Christopher Calderon, the school's president.

When you first approach the building, it resembles an office rather than what you would expect a typical high school to look like. That is because the building used to be just that, but over the last 20 years, it has continued to expand and now includes a state-of-the-art soccer field on campus.

KCRA 3 walked the halls of the small private Catholic school as Calderon explained their mission where the student body is near

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