The Daily Numbers (the Archdiocese Schools edition): 178 schools operated by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. That number will get a lot smaller today.
40 elementary schools and maybe 4 or 5 high schools to be closed in the archdiocese.
68,000 students in those schoools. That’s a 35 percent drop since 2001.
30 schools that have been closed in the last 5 years.
20 archdiocesan elementary schools that have closed since 1971.
10 closed since 2003.
36,695 kids in 48 Catholic grade schools in 1963, peak enrollment for the county.
9,211 kids in 32 schools in 2010.
3,000 dollar average tuition for archdiocese elementary schools.
6,000 average tuition for high schools.
1953, when Archbishop Prendergast opened its doors as a boys school.
3 years later Monsignor Bonner built for boys, Prendie becomes all-girls.
1963, when Cardinal O’Hara coed high school opened.
16 member blue-ribbon commission that will make the recommendations as to which schools should be closed.
10 a.m., when school presidents and principals will get the list at a meeting at Neumann University.
4 p.m. formal press conference to make the announcement public by the archdiocese.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Here’s a question: What exactly becomes of the Catholic should all these schools close?
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I Don’t Get It: The tradition of single-sex schools at Bonner and Prendie appears to be about to go by the boards. It’s a shame.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the parents, teachers and staff of all these schools, who have been on pins and needles for weeks as they waited for the official word on their schools.
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Quote Box: “It wears me out.”
- Monsignor Bonner/Archbishop Prendergast President the Rev. James Olson, on the ever-present rumors that the schools will be closed.
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