Catholic schools are losing ground to surging enrolments in state and independent schools

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Parents are turning to low-fee independent schools charging less than $5000 a year.

A greater proportion of parents are choosing to send their children to independent and state schools, while the Catholic sector's share of enrolments continues to fall.

Catholic schools gained 4000 students last year, but continued to lose ground to government and independent schools.in Catholic schools grew last year, rising for the first time in three years, it was not enough to stopAustralia’s Catholic school student population has grown by just 0.5 per cent overIn the same period, the government school sector grew 6.1 per cent and the independent school sector grew 8.

Independent schools had the biggest proportional increase, rising from 14.63 per cent to 14.79 per cent. The drift back to state schools has also been far more pronounced at primary school level than in secondary schools, analysis of ABSIn a paper for the Australian Educational Researcher, published in December, Dr Rowe wrote that the small drift back to public schools was more likely driven by economics than ideology.

 

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