Catholic schools by the numbers

Published: November 11, 2016

The Office of Catholic Schools provided the following statistics for the 2016-17 school year for the Diocese of Little Rock.

Enrollment

• Schools: 28
• Total enrollment: 6,799
• Elementary enrollment: 4,940
• Secondary enrollment: 1,859
• Percentage of Catholic students: 77
• Total enrollment in preschools: 737

Race and Ethnicity

• Percent of white students: 88
• Percent of Asian students: 4
• Percent of black students: 1.6
• Percent of multi-racial students: 4
(The remaining students are Native American, Pacific islanders or unknown. Additionally 13.4 percent identify themselves as Hispanic.)

Tuition

• Average annual cost of educating one child in elementary school: $5,588
• Average annual cost of educating one child in secondary schools: Range from $5,875 at Catholic High School and $11,810 at Mount St. Mary Academy to $21,829 for Subiaco Academy, a boarding school.
• Average tuition for elementary for first Catholic child: $3,627
• Average tuition for secondary: $6,286 (Catholic student) or $8,565 (non-Catholic student) This doesn’t include Subiaco Academy, a boarding school.

Teachers

• Total professional staff: 649
• Percent of staff who are laity: 97
• Percent of staff who are Catholic: 77

Oldest school

• Mount St. Mary Academy in Little Rock, established in 1851

Standardized tests

• Stanford 10 Achievement composite scores for 2016

First grade: 61st percentile
Second grade: 69
Third grade: 62
Fourth grade: 69
Fifth grade: 68
Sixth grade: 78
Seventh grade: 69
Eighth grade: 67
The national average is 50th percentile.

• Average ACT scores for 2016

English: 25.5 for Catholic schools (state average 19.8)
Math: 23.1 (19.6)
Reading: 25.0 (20.7)
Science: 23.9 (20.2)
Composite: 24.5 (20.2)

Click for the Catholic Schools Herald, November 2016 index