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Developing a predictive metric to assess school viability.(Report)

This article examines a wide range of parish school indicators that can be used to predict long-term viability.

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Catholic elementary school enrollment peaked in 1965, when 4.491 million students were educated in over 10,000 Catholic schools across the country (United States Catholic Conference, 1976). Since then, Catholic elementary school enrollment and the number of schools have dropped back to 1920 levels (see Table 1). Numerous reasons for this decline have been offered. McLellan (2000) identified the lack of leadership on the part of the Church hierarchy and their unwillingness to make critical changes in governance and administration, the diminished ...

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