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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Catholic schools have typically been around for a long time and own the facilities with no mortgage payments, etc.

That is a very large savings.

For example, Gonzaga and SJC and Visi have been operating since before the civil war.

And a school like St. Anselm's Abbey is located on the property of the Abbey and thus has much lower overhead.

Schools that formed more recently probably had to pay much more for the land and facilities.

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Your points about the land, etc, are correct but FYI that none of the high schools that you named are "parochial".  So, yes, the above schools do have much lower overhead for the reasons you indicate but, no, they are not parochial schools because they are NOT part of a parish.  In this area we don't actually have many/any parochial high schools that I know of.

And at the elementary level schools offer even more greatly discounted tuition because of the high rate of financial support and subsidy from the parishes.

Because of the Catholic history of moving into immigrant enclaves and establishing schools and sometimes parishes during the late 1800s and very early 1900s many of the Catholic schools, whether parochial or independent, are in the heart of most cities and, therefore, operate on "prime" landscape. [/quote]

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