Why Catholic Schools

Why Catholic Schools?

For over a century, Catholic schools have educated children in the most vulnerable and impoverished communities in United States.  Catholic education empowers families with a pathway out of poverty by providing a faith based academically rigorous curriculum that focuses on the full development of the human person and community values of hard work, faith, respect, and self-worth.

Facts:

• There is no system of schools-- public, private, parochial or charter - that has comparable outcomes in educating demographically disadvantaged children.

• 98% of low-income Catholic school students graduate on time from high school, and 98% of that group goes on to college.

• Historically Catholic schools produce graduates who are more civically engaged, more tolerant of diverse views, and more committed to service as adults.