Transcript Catholic School Development:

Catholic Schools:
The current state of affairs
How Far Have We Come?
• 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
Private School Enrollment
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.
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%
Catholic School Count
444
778
1,219
1,688
1765
833
Source: NCEA 9/04
School Counts
Number of Catholic Schools
8000
7800
7600
7400
7200
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Number 7000
6800
6600
6400
6200
6000
1983-84
2003-04
Year
7,937
6,727
Where are the schools?
School settings
60%
50%
40%
1983-84:
47% Urban
53% Suburban/Rural
2003-04:
44% Urban
56% Suburban/Rural
30%
Urban
Suburban/Rural
20%
10%
Suburban/Rural
0%
Urban
Percentage
1983-84
2003-04
Year
Source: NCEA 9/04
Catholic School Students and
Services
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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
The Cost of Education:
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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
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%).
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.
Parish Revenue and School
Costs 1980-1993
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Parish Revenue
School Costs
300
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1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993
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.
Trends in Church Attendance
Clergy Numbers: 1981-2001
Clergy Trends
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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.
Staff Size and Pupil Teacher
Ratios 1980-81 and 1993-94
1980-81
Religious Staff
24,898
Lay Teachers
71,841
Total Staff
96,739
Enrollment
2,279,639
Pupil-Teacher ratio 23.56
1993-94
10,982
100,400
112,199
1,992,183
17.75
What’s Not Hot?
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Multiple fundraisers
Stipends
Parish support
Standard tuitions
Hand-to-Mouth existence
Passivity
Lack of participative governance
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
What’s Next?
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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
What’s Hot?
• Development Programs
• Fair Share Tuition, Stewardship,
Volunteerism
• Smaller levels of parish support
• Lay leaders/faculty
• Planned finances
• Shared governance
• Activism
What’s HOT in Development?
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Use of technology
Responsibility of the board; ownership
Planned giving
Corporate sponsorships
Persons to direct giving
Investments
Involvement
Training