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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]
St. Benedict High School (Chicago, Illinois) St. Edward Central Catholic High School (Elgin, Illinois) St. Francis de Sales High School (Chicago, Illinois) St. Francis High School (Wheaton, Illinois) St. Ignatius College Prep; St. Joseph High School (Westchester, Illinois) St. Laurence High School; St. Patrick High School (Chicago)
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.
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]
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.
St. Laurence High School was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers as a boys' school. With the closure of its neighboring sister school Queen of Peace High School, a girls' school run by the Dominican Sisters, it was announced that St. Laurence would become co-educational from the 2017–2018 academic year onwards and accommodate transferring female students.
IC Catholic Prep (ICCP) is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Elmhurst, Illinois, and located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois. When opened in 1936, it was the only co-educational secondary institution in DuPage County. The Sisters of St. Agnes have offered a curriculum incorporating a college prep focus since its founding.
Saint Viator High School is a private Catholic co-educational secondary school run by the Clerics of Saint Viator in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It was founded by Father Louis Querbes and opened in 1961 to serve as a college-preparatory school for students from the northwest suburbs of Chicago , which is part of the Archdiocese of Chicago .