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rangerrebew:

Seven NYC Catholic schools announce in past month alone they are closing — as experts blame skyrocketing tuition, loss of religion
Story by Katherine Donlevy • 12h

Catholic schools across New York City are falling like dominoes thanks to skyrocketing tuition prices and a deteriorating connection to religion, according to experts and dismal statistics.

In just the past month alone, a shocking seven institutions announced they would be shutting their doors for good at the end of the academic year — following 13 others that fell to the same fate in the years since the pandemic, battered by overall enrollment plummeting a jaw-dropping 23%.

The newly announced closures mean 12% of the Catholic Schools that operated in the five boroughs in 2020 will no longer exist by the summer.


Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx, billed as the oldest Congregation of Christian Brothers educational institution in the country, announced last month that it would shut down in June. AP
Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx, billed as the oldest Congregation of Christian Brothers educational institution in the country, announced last month that it would shut down in June. AP
That’s not even counting the half-dozen other Catholic schools that merged with other schools to bolster their quickly diminishing ranks.

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rangerrebew:

--- Quote from: rangerrebew on February 17, 2025, 06:03:41 am --- as experts blame skyrocketing tuition, loss of religion

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And a Pope who seems more interested in things of this world, not God's world.

DCPatriot:

--- Quote from: rangerrebew on February 17, 2025, 06:06:37 am ---And a Pope who seems more interested in things of this world, not God's world.

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In Buffalo, NY, one of the reasons stated...monies lost due to court convictions pertaining to child molestation by clergy.

My former Parochial school was converted into a senior care facility.

Wingnut:
School vouchers could turn the trend around.  But this is NYC,  fuhgettaboutit.

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