Loretto High School to close in June

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Loretto High School, an all-girls Catholic school [in Sacramento, CA] , will shutter its campus at the end of this school year, administrators announced this morning. They blame declining enrollment.

Three years ago, enrollment at Loretto was 559, according to the California Department of Education. It fell to 389 this year. And registration for the school’s annual entrance exam, which usually attracts 175 potential students, only attracted 80, foretelling further enrollment declines next year.

Read the entire article at sacbee.com/topstories/story/1577195.html
 
The high schools that will still be open, as of June, in the Diocese of Sacramento are:

Jesuit High School in Sacramento - male only
Mercy High School in Red Bluff - Coed
Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento - Coed
Cristo Rey High School in Sacramento - Coed for low income students
St. Francis Catholic High School in Sacramento - female only
St. Stephen Academy in Sacramento - 7th-12th grade Coed with in classroom separation of females and males. All students must be members of St. Stephen the First Martyr Parish (F.S.S.P. Parish)
St. Patrick - St. Vincent High School in Vallejo - Coed
 
Just one more sign of the coming end of Catholic primary and secondary education in America.

By the end of this century I think it will cease to exist if trends continue.

But the Lord always provides and at a time when Catholic education is rapidly shrinking, Chritian schools are growing just as quickly as Catholic schools shrink.

Not all Chritian schools are the same. I read of one CVhritian school in an area that had lost its catholic schools planning on accomodoating Catholic schoochildren.

I think we will se more of this and hopefully the religious ed part of many Chritian schools will have a Catholic tract for non-evangelical students.

The Orthodox are trying to start up some schools. They are such a small religious group in the US that that is not a viable option for Catholic parents. Plus I think they mostly require the students to be Orthodox to attend.
 
peregrinus_WA said:
Actually, they may of brought this on themselves this time. I remember this school from a controversy a few years back and here are the links to threads here:

All Girls Catholic HS fires Teacher for work at Planned Parenthood

and the schools retaliation against the student

Student Who Exposed Catholic Teacher’s Abortion Work Expelled

The declining enrollment may be because of this incident.
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I wondered if that was the same Loreto.

I think when you shell out a lot of money for a Catholic education, you sort of expect it to be, well, Catholic.
 
Yes, there is only one Loretto High School in Sacramento.
To refresh my memory I read from the blog Stand up and speak out…Loretto…
Just as I expected, all the students defending the teacher who escorted at the abortion clinic were bragging about how “tolerant”, open-minded, etc they were not to judge the teacher negatively. The nun in charge of the school wanted to keep the abortion escort teacher. She ended up expelling the student who blew the whistle. One of the classes taught (by a difrferent teacher) was Sexuality and Spirituality. Part of the course was to do “non-judgemental” research on abortion clinics. They were also given information about the teenwire.com link. That was a Planned Parenthood link…need I say more! The students were also bragging about their school being the best “social justice” school in town where free-thinking, open-mindedness and tolerance outweighed Catholic teaching. Many of the students at the school were not Catholic.
Good ol’ Bishop Weigand finally stepped in and asked that the teacher leave.
Some “Catholic” schools think that “Social Justice” trumps basic Catholic teachings. Now we can see what can happen to a school that swings so far to the left that relativism and tolerance are more important than God and life.
 
The drive to keep Loretto High School from closing gained credibility and a powerful ally Thursday when the effort to save the Catholic all-girls school received the support of the spiritual leader of the region’s 900,000 Catholics.

Bishop Jaime Soto’s blessing of the effort to save the prestigious school was made public Thursday night before a gathering of more than 400 Loretto parents, alumni and students in St. Ignatius Church.

Read more at: sacbee.com/education/story/1585301.html
 
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