Catholic School Enrollment Boomed during COVID. Let's Make It More than a One-Time Bump. Issue Brief

Autor/inn/en	Porter-Magee, Kathleen; Smith, Annie; Klausmeier, Matt
Institution	Manhattan Institute (MI)
Titel	Catholic School Enrollment Boomed during COVID. Let's Make It More than a One-Time Bump. Issue Brief
Quelle	(2022), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Catholic Schools; Enrollment Trends; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; In Person Learning; Elementary Secondary Education; Preschool Education; Geographic Regions; Public Schools; School Choice; United States; Virginia; Florida; Illinois; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Katholische Schule; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; USA
Abstract	The 2022 National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) data provide a window into how the landscape of American education has shifted over the past two years in response to COVID-19-related school disruption. Between 2020 and 2022--a period marred not only by the health and safety worries that COVID brought but also by the heated debates about how schools should serve students amid a pandemic. In early spring 2020, many Catholic schools were the first to close, responding quickly to the threat that was still not fully understood. Then in fall 2020, Catholic schools, far more so than either public or charter schools, stood apart again by finding a way to reopen safely for in-person learning. The 2022 NCEA enrollment results reveal a historic 3.8% nationwide enrollment increase for all Catholic elementary and secondary schools. In order to understand whether the 2022 rebound represents a true reversal of the previous decline in Catholic school enrollment, it's important to dive deeper to understand where the increases were concentrated and what can be learned from them. To that end, analyzing the numbers by grade level provides some insight into just what may have changed and where. Pre-K, for instance, accounts for 40% (or 44,584 students) of the 2021 enrollment decline and 66% (41,190 students) of the 2022 rebound. K-8 Catholic school enrollment, by contrast, rose by 2.4% (23,100 students) between 2021 and 2022, and secondary school enrollment saw a modest 0.4% (2,164 students) decline from 2021 to 2022. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Tel: 212-599-7000; Fax: 212-599-3494; Web site: http://www.manhattan-institute.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01