By 2019 36 remained.

In Brooklyn, the six schools are located in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.

The diocese said in its news release the schools have experienced declining enrollment for the last five years, but that registrations dropped off significantly as the pandemic took hold of the metropolitan area. Brooklyn Diocese Closes Elementary Schools - Brooklyn, NY - Elementary Catholic academies and parish schools across Brooklyn and Queens will close next week "out of …

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Three grade schools were scheduled to close in 2019, and that year another two grade schools were to merge.

July 9, 2020 World News.

The Archdiocese of New York announced that 20 Catholic schools will not be reopening, while the Diocese of Brooklyn announced that six schools in Brooklyn and Queens will be permanently closing.

New York Archdiocese closes 20 schools; six more close in Brooklyn Diocese.

The sitting bishop is also the true principal of the diocese's pre-seminary high school, Cathedral Preparatory Seminary.As of March 2009, Cathedral Preparatory Seminary is the only full-time high school seminary in the nation [citation needed].Three Diocesan and/or parish high schools are under the auspices of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens [citation needed].

Former schools. IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz. NEW YORK (CNS) – Twenty schools in the Archdiocese of New York will not reopen in the fall because of the financial fallout caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

From the mid-2000s to 2019 the diocese had closed 45 schools. They also attributed the closings to the pandemic.

Following months of canceled Masses, 26 Catholic schools will not reopen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Archdiocese of New York and Diocese of Brooklyn announced Thursday.

High schools. By . Meanwhile, in the neighboring Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, school leaders said six schools will close there as of Aug. 31.


In the 1980s the diocese had about 102 schools. Brooklyn Diocese Superintendent of Schools Thomas Chadzutko said that buildings will be thoroughly cleaned during the closures and that the Diocese will do …

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