Catholic School Enrollment Continues To Increase

By Jeanne Ponessa

Roman Catholic schools continue to have enrollment increases, and are home to an increasingly diverse pool of teachers, a survey released last week says.

Enrollment at the nation's 8,243 Catholic schools has increased for the fourth consecutive year, the National Catholic Educational Association said last week at its annual conference in Philadelphia.

Sister Catherine T. McNamee, the president of the 200,000-member NCEA, reported that this year's total Catholic school enrollment of 2.6 million students represents an increase of nearly 17,000 students over last year, an increase of 0.6 percent from that of...