1 / 24

Catholic Schools:

Catholic Schools:. The current state of affairs. 1990 enrollment: 2,589,000 14.6% religious 1990 staffing: 136,900 Total schools: 8,719 Region with highest enrollment, 1990:MidEast. 2004 enrollment: 2,500,000* 4.1% religious 2004 staffing:161,496 Total schools: 6,727

ila-farrell
Download Presentation

Catholic Schools:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Catholic Schools: The current state of affairs

  2. 1990 enrollment: 2,589,000 14.6% religious 1990 staffing: 136,900 Total schools: 8,719 Region with highest enrollment, 1990:MidEast 2004 enrollment: 2,500,000* 4.1% religious 2004 staffing:161,496 Total schools: 6,727 Region with highest enrollment:MidEast Highest rate of growth:West How Far Have We Come?

  3. Private School Enrollment

  4. Factoids on Private Education • In 2001-2002 school year: • 26% (27,000) of all schools private; • 84% of private school students are enrolled in religious or sectarian private schools; • 78% of all private schools are religious or sectarian.

  5. Private School Enrollments Where do private school students go to school? 89-90 99-00 Catholic 54.5% 48.6% Nonsectarian 13.2% 15.7% Conservative Christian10.9% 15.0% Baptist 5.8% 6.1% Lutheran 4.4% 4.3% Jewish 3.2% 3.3% Episcopal 1.7% 2.2% Seventh-day Adventist1.6% 1.2% Calvinist 0.9% 0.8% Friends 0.3% 0.3%

  6. Catholic School Count 444 778 1,688 1765 1,219 833 Source: NCEA 9/04

  7. School Counts 6,727 7,937

  8. Where are the schools? 1983-84: 47% Urban 53% Suburban/Rural 2003-04: 44% Urban 56% Suburban/Rural Source: NCEA 9/04

  9. Catholic School Students and Services • Minority enrollment (2001) 25.6% • Non-Catholic enrollment (2001) 13.6% • Student/teacher ratio: 16:1 • Extended day programs:4,623 • Receiving Title I services: 4,045 schools (140,585 students) • Free/reduced meals: 197,735

  10. The Cost of Education: • Average elementary: $1,787.00 • Average per pupil cost: elementary:$2,823 • Average increase in tuition from 1997: 19%. • Average percentage of Catholic income to the Church: 0.7% • Average secondary tuition:$4,300 • Average per pupil cost: secondary: $5,700

  11. Who Wants to Attend? • Catholic: 86.5%; Non-Catholic: 13.4%(up from 2% in 1970) • Minority students: 24.7% • Urban: 32.8%;InnerCity: 12.9%;Suburban: 32.9%;Rural: 21.4% • Waiting lists: 3,723 schools; largest: MidEast • Receiving Title I: 181,647 (7%).

  12. Major Sources of Revenue • Tuition: accounts for, on average, 80% of school income; • Parish Investment: accounts for, on average, 15% of school income • Fundraising: accounts for the remainder of school income.

  13. Parish Revenue and School Costs 1980-1993

  14. Trends in Parish Involvement • The average Catholic now contributes approximately 0.7% of income to the Catholic Church. (Those who attended 8 or more years of Catholic school tend to give more). • The average parish income, relative to school costs, has continued to rise steadily since 1993.

  15. Trends in Church Attendance

  16. Clergy Numbers: 1981-2001

  17. Parish Involvement • Parishes whose schools have closed have seen a decline in parish income. • Parishes whose schools have closed have not seen a rise in CCD enrollment. • Today, approximately 50% of public school students who are Catholic are enrolled in CCD; 50% of those students regularly attend classes. After Confirmation, less than 15% are enrolled or active.

  18. Staff Size and Pupil Teacher Ratios 1980-81 and 1993-94 1980-81 1993-94 Religious Staff 24,898 10,982 Lay Teachers 71,841 100,400 Total Staff 96,739 112,199 Enrollment 2,279,639 1,992,183 Pupil-Teacher ratio 23.56 17.75

  19. What’s Not Hot? • Multiple fundraisers • Stipends • Parish support • Standard tuitions • Hand-to-Mouth existence • Passivity • Lack of participative governance

  20. What do we have to face in the future? • Increase in number of charter schools, home schools, “traditional Catholic schools” • Increase in public school opposition to choice programs • Improvement in public schools • Volatile market, increase in unemployment throughout the 2000’s • Continued mainstreaming of Catholics • Increase in number of nonCatholics

  21. What’s Next? • Floats of bonds, loans • Charging actual cost • Continued use of technology • Highly trained development officers • Increasing pressure on legislators • Increasing pressure in the courts • Crisis in funding, staffing

  22. What’s Hot? • Development Programs • Fair Share Tuition, Stewardship, Volunteerism • Smaller levels of parish support • Lay leaders/faculty • Planned finances • Shared governance • Activism

  23. What’s HOT in Development? • Use of technology • Responsibility of the board; ownership • Planned giving • Corporate sponsorships • Persons to direct giving • Investments • Involvement • Training

More Related