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An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States. [ 1 ] A wave of school closures after the 2014-2015 school year caused over 200 employees to change jobs and over 1,200 pupils to change schools.
At the peak in 1960, 13,000 schools served over 5 million students. [32] By the 1960s there was a growing lack of teaching sisters. The solution was to hire much more expensive lay teachers, who grew from 4% of the elementary teachers in the Chicago archdiocese in 1950 to 38% by 1965. [33]
The Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught at the parochial schools in Chicago, Skokie [6] Waukegan, Illinois. They also established mission schools in Colorado in Breckenridge, Delta, Pueblo, and Salida. St. Scholastica Academy in Canon City served as a day and boarding school for young women from 1890 until it closed in 2001. [2]
Sacred Heart Convent Sr. Sec. School, Jagadhri, Haryana - Carmelites? Children of the New Dawn School, Vasoli - English; Prerana Nursery School, Pune; St. Clare's HIgh School, Pune - no longer part of the Network; Sophia Nursery School, Sophia College (junior and senior), and Sophia Poltechnic Institute Mumbai - English
St. Edward's Parish is a Roman Catholic church, rectory, convent and coeducational grammar school located on the northwest side of Chicago founded in 1899. It is within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. [2]
Jesuit school in Izvalta (1635–1820), from 1817 a college, now Izvalta Church Jesuit residence in Skaistkalne (1660–1773), initially a mission until 1677, now Church of the Assumption Jesuit college in Krāslava (1676–1811) Jesuit residence in Jelgava (1690–1773)
Mundelein College was a private, independent, Roman Catholic women's college in Chicago, Illinois.Located on the edge of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods on the far north side of the city, Mundelein College was founded and administered by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A small group of Mercy Sisters arrived in Chicago in 1846, led by Frances Warde, Catherine McAuley's closest friend. Within weeks, they opened a "select school" that became St. Francis Xavier Academy for Females, the first school chartered in the city of Chicago. The course of study covered primary, secondary and collegiate levels.