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The Catholic Church runs the largest network of private schools in the United States. Total Catholic elementary/middle and high school enrollment for the 2016-2017 academic year is 1,878,824. Elementary/middle schools: 5,224 schools educating 1,309,429 students. High schools: 1,205 schools educating 569,395 students.
• 17.4% of Catholic school students are not Catholic. (NCEA) • 45% of Catholic schools in the United States participate in Federal Nutrition Programs, which provide over 270,000 free meals to children daily. • The mean cost per pupil at Catholic schools is $5,847; the national per pupil average is $12,608).
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Catholic schools: Understand that education is a formative process, centered on Jesus Christ the Teacher, and ordered to the cultivation of wisdom and virtue, which leads to human flourishing. Proclaim that truth, goodness, and beauty form the soul, are worthy in their own right, and are meant for everyone. Embrace the Church’s understanding ...
Aug 18, 2016 · Faith August 29-September 6, 2016 issue. The Catholic school system as we know it must change. Charles Zech August 18, 2016. (iStock photo) First, let me make it clear that I am not a parochial ...
Moreover, in the same seventy-five-year period, the Catholic population tripled: from 20.2 million in 1930 to over 66 million in 2004. Since 1990, more than 400 new Catholic schools have opened in the United States. But during that period there has been a net loss of more than 760 Catholic schools. Most of the decline has been concentrated in ...
According to the 2016 Official Catholic Directory, as of 2016 there were 243 seminaries with 4,785 students in the United States; 3,629 diocesan seminarians and 1,456 religious seminarians. By the official 2017 statistics, there are 5,050 seminarians (3,694 diocesan and 1,356 religious) in the United States.
Jan 25, 2019 · And from 1831 through 1916, Catholic communities in at least 14 states allowed public school boards to finance local Catholic schools, accepting the limitation that religious instruction would ...
