"Bucking a national trend, enrollment at most of Long Island's Catholic high schools is strong and holding steady, even as falling numbers of students in the diocese's elementary schools forced closures and the region's economy struggles to regain its pre-recession footing.
Seven of the 10 high schools showed enrollment gains over the decade from the 2003-04 school year through 2012-13, while three saw declines. One school, the all-girls Academy of St. Joseph in Brentwood, closed in 2009.
The stability on Long Island stems from a combination of factors -- the number of Catholics here and families' desire to have their children in a faith-based high school; the institutions' academic rigor, traditions and strict rules; and the modest tuition cost compared with other private schools."
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Commentary: Can we say the same for the Catholic School Students in NYC? No, we cannot.
-Edward Lamb
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