{"id":2007178,"date":"2023-08-21T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/northern-virginia-catholic-schools-see-third-straight-year-of-enrollment-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:27:33","slug":"northern-virginia-catholic-schools-see-third-straight-year-of-enrollment-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/northern-virginia-catholic-schools-see-third-straight-year-of-enrollment-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Virginia Catholic schools continue to experience enrollment growth for the third consecutive year."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorthern-virginia-catholic-schools-see-third-straight-year-of-enrollment-growth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Catholic Schools in \u2064Northern Virginia\u200b See Continued Enrollment Growth<\/h2>\n<p>The Catholic schools in the\u2063 northern Virginia area have experienced\u200c a remarkable trend of \u2064increasing enrollment \u200cfor the 2023-2024 school year. Despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, these schools have seen a 10% surge in enrollment since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062Catholic Diocese\u2062 of Arlington, which comprises 37 elementary schools, four high schools, three stand-alone preschools, and five independent schools,\u2064 has consistently witnessed a rise in student enrollment.\u2064 This is in stark contrast to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-education-lesson-from-covid-lockdowns-school-choice-is-imperative-for-every-child\/\" title=\"The Education Lesson from COVID Lockdowns: School Choice Is Imperative for Every Child\">public school districts<\/a> in Virginia, which have struggled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/northern-virginia-catholic-schools-see-third-straight-year-of-enrollment-growth\/\" title=\"Northern Virginia Catholic schools continue to experience enrollment growth for the third consecutive year.\">reach\u2062 pre-pandemic enrollment levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Impressive Numbers Reflecting Growth<\/h3>\n<p>According \u2063to the Diocese of Arlington Office \u200dof Catholic Schools, an estimated 18,488 students have enrolled\u2063 in schools within the \u2064diocese.\u200d This includes the highly populated counties of Loudoun and Fairfax, encompassing the entirety of\u200d northern Virginia. These latest enrollment figures represent a 10% increase from the \u200d2019-20 school year, with an \u200cadditional 150 students joining this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington expressed his gratitude to\u200c the parents, teachers, faculty, \u200band staff who embrace \u200dthe Catholic faith through education. \u200dHe emphasized the importance of the \u2063partnership between parents and\u2064 teachers in\u2064 nurturing and educating\u200d students, \u200cacknowledging that parents are the primary teachers of their children.<\/p>\n<p>The growing interest in\u2062 Catholic schools has \u200bled to\u200b waitlists in several schools, and Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, Virginia, has achieved full enrollment for the first\u2062 time in over two decades, \u200das stated \u200cin a \u200cdiocesan press release.<\/p>\n<h3>A Contrast to Public School Enrollment<\/h3>\n<p>While Catholic schools thrive, nearby public \u2063school districts \u2062have experienced declining enrollment in recent years, struggling to recover from the impact of the pandemic. Fairfax County Public Schools, the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-youngkin-slams-virginias-largest-school-district-after-transgender-policy-defiance\/\" title=\"Glenn Youngkin criticizes Virginia's biggest school district for defying transgender policy.\">largest school\u200c district<\/a> in Virginia, reported a notable drop \u200cin student\u2064 numbers, \u2062with\u200c 180,109 students in the 2022-23 school \u200byear\u200b compared to nearly 189,000 students in\u200d 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop \u2062Burbidge emphasized the Catholic\u200b faith&#8217;s belief that every young person is a gift from God and deserves holistic\u2063 formation. He expressed his gratitude to parents who continue to trust in the growth of Catholic schools and assured them of his\u200c prayers as the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-bowser-requires-negative-coronavirus-tests-for-public-school-students\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor Bowser Requires Negative Coronavirus Tests for Public School Students\">school year begins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to\u200d read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to experience a steady rise in student numbers. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, enrollment in Catholic schools in northern Virginia has surged by 10% since 2020. The Catholic Diocese of Arlington, comprising 37 elementary schools, four high schools, three preschools, and five independent schools, has maintained its growth trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}