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A private school in Athens is changing its name now that it is expanding to accept students for middle school grades. Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School on Lavender Road will now be known in ...
Francis was the first pope to visit a Catholic school in the US In a history-making trip in 2015, the pontiff visited Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem, New York.
There were 5,905 U.S. Catholic schools in operation during the 2023-24 school year, down from approximately 11,000 in 1970, according to the National Catholic Education Association.
Milwaukee did not have as many Catholic school closings as some other urban centers. One large reason was the rise in Milwaukee of the nation’s first urban school voucher program.Since 1998 ...
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Three Lancaster City parishes are combining resources to continue offering Catholic education to city students after it was announced that Resurrection Catholic … ...
The 250 some Catholic schools in Texas enroll 64,000 students — more than 20% of all private school enrollment in the state. Catholic schools typically charge less than other private, religious ...
Venango Catholic. ORA is partnering with Manchester Bidwell Corp. of Pittsburgh and applying to be a private school for adult learners, offering post-secondary entry-level career training in ...
In the Nation’s Report Card, national scores for Catholic school students surpassed public school students for fourth- and eighth-grade mathematics and reading. Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
In eighth grade, Catholic schools outpaced public schools by 21 points in math and 20 points in reading. The data is based on mandated standardized testing given between January and March 2024.
Today, over half of Catholic high school enrollment is concentrated in just 11 of the city’s 45 Catholic high schools. The largest is St. Francis Prep in Queens, with 2,400 students. Four other ...
Sister Rosa, born Ngoc Hong Thi Pham in Vietnam, says the children she teaches at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy in New York City "look like angels." The 35-year-old native of Saigon is a ...
Catholic Recruiter Associates conducted the search for Hargens’ replacement, and Nancy Grasmick, the former longtime superintendent of Maryland Public Schools, chaired the effort.