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[quote=Anonymous]Here are the others.... http://www.catholicacademies.org.

I was thinking there were 3 but there are 4, plus WJA and San M ..that is 6. DoñB is HS, so did not count that, but that would make 7. Plus all the kids in the other 50+ schools in FA.

That is ADW alone.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic schools have 5 elementary schools that are 100% free for all children that attend. They go on to the Catholic high schools, I imagine, on FA.[/quote]

Which 5 elementary schools?

I'm aware of 2 Catholic schools that have a specific mission to serve low income kids.  San Miguel, which is middle school, and only serves boys, which I believe is tuition free, and Don Bosco Christo Rey which is a high school where students work to pay a portion of their tuition, but where families are still asked to pay about $2,500 a year.

There is also the Bishop Walker School, which is an elementary school for low income boys East of the River, and is tuition free, but it is Episcopalian, not Catholic.[/quote]

Washington Jesuit Academy is also essentially free for the students selected to attend. That's not K-8, but they are really focused on placing the boys into good high schools. I'd assume all of them get significant financial aid in high school. [/quote]

I'm the PP above.  I forgot about WJA!  I should add that while I wish there were more options, I think the Catholic church deserves a lot of credit for their commitment to educating kids across the financial spectrum. They take have the 3 schools which are listed here, and support several other schools with low tuition that serve many lower income kids (Sacred Heart being one that comes to mind).  They keep their tuitions low, and take vouchers.  They also made a number of buildings available to Center City PCS, when they almost certainly could have gotten more money by putting them on the market.

I'm still curious what the top PP was thinking of when they wrote about the 5 elementary schools.  It's possible that they were thinking of Center City, but those schools are no longer Catholic.  It's also possible that there are schools I don't know about.  [/quote][/quote]

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