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Articles about K-12 Catholic schools in Illinois. Catholic schools in Illinois are usually either grade schools (kindergarten to 8th grade) or high schools (freshman to senior years, also known as 9th grade through 12th grade). Note that most articles should be in the subcategories below, not in this category itself.
"Catholic School System" Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004) online; Walch, Timothy. "The Catholic press and the campaign for parish schools: Chicago and Milwaukee, 1850–1885." U.S. Catholic Historian 3.4 (1984): 254–272. online; Walch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (2nd ed. 2016).
There was a small Catholic population in the English colonies, chiefly in Maryland. It supported local schools, often under Jesuit auspices. The Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Black order of nuns, pioneered in educating Black children in the area, founding St. Frances Academy in 1828 (the first and oldest Black Catholic school in the US).
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]
The schools merged into one co-educational school, Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute in 1973. [2] AOL/SI (also known as Academy/Spalding) was merged with Bergan High School to form Peoria Notre Dame High School in 1988, and the campus was closed at the end of the 1988–1989 school year.
Carmel High School (Mundelein, Illinois) Central Catholic High School (Bloomington, Illinois) Chesterton Academy of the Holy Family; Christ the King Jesuit College Prep High School; Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (Chicago) Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep
The Office of Catholic Schools operates a system of primary and secondary schools in the archdiocese. A 2015 article in the Chicago Tribune described the archdiocesan schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [74] The first school in the archdiocese was a boy's school, opened in Chicago in 1844.
Since 2000, 1,942 Catholic schools around the country have shut their doors, and enrollment has dropped by 621,583 students, to just over 2 million in 2012, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Many Catholic schools are being squeezed out of the education market by financial issues and publicly funded charter schools. [13]