7 NYC Catholic schools announce their closing in past month as experts blame skyrocketing tuition, loss of religion
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, 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.
That’s not even counting the half-dozen other Catholic schools that merged with other schools to bolster their quickly diminishing ranks.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/us-news/se...-religion/
Another N.J. Catholic school is shutting down. See the list of 30+ recent closures
It is a saga that has played out repeatedly in New Jersey: Parents, students and alumni mourning the loss of a beloved Catholic school.
The latest example is in Essex County, where the Archdiocese of Newark announced Wednesday that Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair will permanently close in June.
It joins a growing list of Catholic schools across the country closing their doors as enrollment declines and financial pressures mount.
There were 5,905 U.S. Catholic schools in operation during the 2023-24 school year, down from approximately 11,000 in 1970, according to the National Catholic Education Association.
Nationwide, enrollment increased in 2022 for the first time in two decades, but has since leveled off. There were 1.69 million students in Catholic schools as of 2023, down 14% from a decade ago, the group said. Enrollment at Catholic schools is usually open to students of all religions, with 21% of students not identifying as Catholic.
https://www.nj.com/education/2025/02/ano...sures.html
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, 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.
That’s not even counting the half-dozen other Catholic schools that merged with other schools to bolster their quickly diminishing ranks.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/us-news/se...-religion/
Another N.J. Catholic school is shutting down. See the list of 30+ recent closures
It is a saga that has played out repeatedly in New Jersey: Parents, students and alumni mourning the loss of a beloved Catholic school.
The latest example is in Essex County, where the Archdiocese of Newark announced Wednesday that Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair will permanently close in June.
It joins a growing list of Catholic schools across the country closing their doors as enrollment declines and financial pressures mount.
There were 5,905 U.S. Catholic schools in operation during the 2023-24 school year, down from approximately 11,000 in 1970, according to the National Catholic Education Association.
Nationwide, enrollment increased in 2022 for the first time in two decades, but has since leveled off. There were 1.69 million students in Catholic schools as of 2023, down 14% from a decade ago, the group said. Enrollment at Catholic schools is usually open to students of all religions, with 21% of students not identifying as Catholic.
https://www.nj.com/education/2025/02/ano...sures.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
