Orlando Catholic schools are growing

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Catholic schools in Central Florida have been growing, bucking the national trend of declining Catholic school enrollment.

That news has won the Orlando diocese praise during the National Catholic Education Association convention in Orlando this week. The diocese also got a boost from the announcement that the University of Notre Dame will work with four urban Catholic schools in Central Florida to help them grow and improve.

The 42 schools in the diocese have added about 600 students in the past three years. Nationwide, Catholic schools have lost about 31,000 students in the past year, the smallest loss in a decade.

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