My predecessors achieved great things here – building the school, growing the school. I am blessed to be able to stand on their shoulders and continue the work they began.
Guadalupe Regional Middle School has named Jennifer Rose as the new school president, to succeed Virginia Miller, interim president and principal.
The appointment is for the 2023- 2024 academic year, and Miller will continue her duties as school principal.
A Brownsville native, Rose began her career in education 14 years ago at Guadalupe Regional Middle School. She began as an art teacher before adding technology and student activities to her list of responsibilities.
For the past nine years, Rose has worked at ICA Cristo Rey High School, an all-girls high school in San Francisco, California. She was hired there as the Art Department Chair and Educational Technology Director. For the last five years, she has served as the school’s sole assistant principal overseeing all aspects of the academic and co-curricular programs.
Rose has Master’s degrees in Art Education and School Leadership, the latter to be received this summer from the prestigious Remick Leadership Program at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
She is excited to be returning “home” – both personally and professionally – with her husband and son.
“Guadalupe is where I fell in love with Catholic education. It’s where my career in education began, and my entire career, thus far, has been focused on opening doors for students and creating opportunities for them they might not otherwise have. GRMS makes Catholic education accessible to students who are craving opportunities to learn and grow and prepare themselves for what’s next. My predecessors achieved great things here – building the school, growing the school. I am blessed to be able to stand on their shoulders and continue the work they began,” she stated.
Raul Villanueva, chairman of the GRMS Board of Directors, expressed the board’s sentiments.
“We are so excited and blessed to have been able to bring Mrs. Rose on board as the new GRMS school president. We believe that as a local Brownsville native who exemplifies our core mission, she will be instrumental in the continued success of our school. She is motivated, familiar with the unique model of the school and schools like it, and is a wonderful example of a new generation of Catholic School leaders.”
Founded in 2002, Guadalupe Regional Middle School is a Nativity Miguel Coalition school jointly sponsored by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, and Marist Brothers of the Schools.
Their mission is to provide an all-scholarship, quality Catholic education to boys and girls in grades six through eight whose families desire but cannot afford a Catholic education. This academically challenging school teaches its students how to live the gospel values of love, justice, self-discipline and respect for others with the goal that they become the future leaders of the Brownsville civic and church communities.
