What denomination is our family (for catholic school admissions)

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Anonymous wrote:I am one of the PPs. Follow up question on this : Do Episcopalian Schools such as NCS/STA, SSSAS, St Andrews... give any advantage in the admissions process to Episcopalian kids/ families? or is this limited to Catholic Schools?

No. There’s a place in the application to indicate your religion if you choose to, but there’s no advantage to being Episcopalian.

I wonder why this is the case. As in why do Catholic Schools give advantage to Catholic kids in admissions but Episcopalian Schools don't give the same advantage to Episcopalian kids.

Because part of the mission of Catholic schools is to teach Catholic students. The entire educational experience is through a Catholic lens, and religion is a core class every semester. That’s not true for Episcopal schools, which have as part of their mission to care for students as children of God, but are not specifically there to teach Episcopalians. Episcopal schools have a religion requirement, but usually only a couple of classes plus ethics, not a class every semester. They may have a weekly chapel service but it tends to be fairly non-denominational vs a weekly Catholic Mass.

This is not entirely correct. A Catholic school motto is "we teach because we are Catholic, not because the students are."
However, in parochial K-8 Catholic school, they do teach sacramental preparation in 2nd and 8th grade, so they do give preference to parishioners because that sacramental preparation is an intended part of the parochial education.

Independent Catholic schools (not parochial), particularly high schools, do not typically do sacramental preparation (those kids will attend Sunday school for that), and there is no Catholic parishioner discount because they don't have parishioners (who are already donating to support the parish and school as parishioners). Also, at least in my kids' school, they do not attend weekly Mass at school.