CATHOLIC SCHOOL EXPENSES IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 51, 18 April 1874, Page 10

CATHOLIC SCHOOL EXPENSES IN AMERICA.

Fbom the report on the publio and private schools in New Orleans, and collected last spring, we have the following figures of the Catholic schools in that city : —Catholic female academies and parochial schools, 29 ; pupils, 527 ; boys' Catholic parochial schools, 16 ; pupils, 3,865; total Catholic schools, 45 ; pupils, 9,126. Orphan asylums —for girls, 8, with 991 orphans ; for boys, 4, with 510 orphans; total orphan asylums, 12; total number of orphans supported and educated in Catholic asylums, 1,501. From the summary and estimate of expenses we see that only one-third of the children of New Orleans are attending any school, and that only one-eight of the number are educated in the public schools, and Ihoso at over three times the expense to the tax-payer that it costs to educate our children in the Catholic parochial schools. Thus it costs 382,396,94 dollars to educate 11,000 pupils in the public schools, and only about 100,000 dollars to educate 9,000 pupils in our Catholic schools. Further comment is unnecessary.