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By the mid-1960s, enrollment in Catholic parochial schools had reached an all-time high of 4.5 million elementary school pupils, with about 1 million students in Catholic high schools. The enrollments steadily declined as Catholics moved to the suburbs, where the children attended public schools.
The following American schools were once operated by Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of New York and have closed.. The number of schools operated by the archdiocese in the early 1960s was 414; that figure went down to 274 in early 2011, [1] and then 245 in 2013. [2]
St. John's Catholic Grade School, South Milwaukee; St. John de Nepomuc Elementary School, Milwaukee St. John de Nepomuc Elementary School was established in 1927 and served the children of parishioners of the Bohemian and German-speaking St. John de Nepomuc Parish. [5] It opened with four classrooms and was staffed by School Sisters of Notre ...
At the outset of the 2020/21 academic year, the archdiocese ran 160 elementary schools and three high schools. An additional eight Catholic elementary schools and 28 Catholic high schools that are not archdiocesan-run are located within the Archdiocese of Chicago. [3] As of 2015, the Superintendent of Catholic Schools is Jim Rigg, Ph.D. [1]
A directory of Roman Catholic institutions from the 1960s listed 108 Catholic grade schools in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. [2] By 2005 suburban flight contributed to the decline of Catholic schools in the Detroit area. There were no Catholic schools left in Hamtramck by that year, and in the Detroit city limits there were 12. [3]
The first free Catholic high school in the United States was the "Roman Catholic High School of ... St. Paul School In the 1960s, it had 800 students. In 1999, it had ...
St. Patrick's Catholic School Rockville – 1968 St. Peter's School Olney Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill (former) 1957 [42] St. Peter's School Waldorf – 1956 [43] St. Peter School Washington, D.C. Sisters of the Holy Cross (former) 1868 [44] St. Philip the Apostle Catholic School: Camp Springs – 1960 [45] St. Pius X Regional School ...
Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Academy - From circa 2014 to 2019 the enrollment declined by 60%, and in 2019 the school had $300,000 in debt. The school closed in 2019. [ 13 ] Post-closure the school administration suggested students apply to other schools, naming Midwood Catholic Academy and St. Bernard Catholic Academy as possibilities. [ 14 ]