Our Mission Statement Verbum Dei High School is a Catholic, Jesuit, college and career preparatory complemented by our corporate internship program, serving young men of Watts and the surrounding communities who are economically and academically underserved. We develop self-confident gentlemen who are intellectually motivated, spiritually rooted, contemplative, and courageous in their pursuit of a more humane and just world.
Who is Verbum Dei High School?- Nature of the school: all-male, Archdiocesan, Jesuit, college prep high school
- Year of inception: 1962
- Enrollment: 314 students
- Religious composition: 70% Catholic, 27% Protestant, 3% Other
- Ethnic composition: 67% Hispanic, 28% African American, 4% Multiracial, 1% Caucasian
- Number of Faculty: 25
- # of Master’s degrees: 20
- # of Doctorate degrees: 4