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Educating the young has been a mission of the Roman Catholic Church for as long as anybody can remember.

• While curricula and teaching methods have changed dramatically over the years, one thing is immutable: these schools do a great job educating their students.
• The proof is the very high percentage of their graduates who go on to colleges and universities nationwide and abroad.
• Most Roman Catholic schools are day schools, typically affiliated with a parish or diocese.

With many other boarding schools charging $65,000-85,000 a year for their services, these boarding schools offer good value as such things go.

• A couple of schools are single sex schools. The rest are co-educational institutions.
• Roman Catholic orders, such as the Jesuits or Salesians, who specialize in teaching, run many of these schools.

The standards are high.

• Most schools have uniform or dress codes.
• Core values are also taught, along with plenty of instruction in the Catholic faith.
• These Catholic schools produce graduates whose solid spiritual and academic foundations anchor them for advancement in later life.

The Schools

Check out the profiles of these schools. Many of them also take day students, so if you live in the area, you can have the best of both worlds.

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   Grades 9-12
   350 students
   Coed

   "The Canterbury experience is a rich one for both boarding and day students, and the community is

Religion is important to you. You want your children to be educated in a school where your religion matters. You want them to grow up practising their religion on a daily basis, not just once a week in a church or schule. Of course, exactly how intense that religious education is going to be is entirely up to you. That is the genius of America. Religious freedom is real and alive. As a result, there are religious schools to suit just about every inclination.

The Various Denominations

The Roman Catholic Church has made religious education the centerpiece of its evangelistic efforts for centuries. As a result, you have over 7,500 schools to choose from in that church alone. There are just as many for you to choose from. Both religions have numerous varieties and subsets of schools available. Most schools in the Roman Catholic church are run by the local dioceses and parishes. But several religious orders such as the and Franciscans operate networks of schools across the country. There are also schools run by several sects of the . Most of the Roman Catholic and Jewish schools will demand observance of their religious customs and teachings. In other words, religion is not optional in these schools.

The Protestant schools include the , the , Baptists, Presbyterians and and more. These branches of the church offer thousands of schools.

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