Recently, Kellenberg Memorial High School has been featured on Verizon’s FiOS1 News, CBS News, and Newsday.com.
Below, please find the links to the various videos and articles.
From Newsday.com:
LI Catholic high schools’ enrollment going strong
Bucking a national trend, enrollment at most of Long Island’s Catholic high schools is strong and holding steady, even as falling numbers of students in the diocese’s elementary schools forced closures and the region’s economy struggles to regain its pre-recession footing.
Seven of the 10 high schools showed enrollment gains over the decade from the 2003-04 school year through 2012-13, while three saw declines. One school, the all-girls Academy of St. Joseph in Brentwood, closed in 2009.
The stability on Long Island stems from a combination of factors — the number of Catholics here and families’ desire to have their children in a faith-based high school; the institutions’ academic rigor, traditions and strict rules; and the modest tuition cost compared with other private schools…
(Continue reading on Newsday.com: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/li-catholic-high-schools-enrollment-going-strong-1.6419665)
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From CBS News:
VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON CBS LOCAL SITE:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/thanks-to-pope-francis-explosion-of-interest-in-catholicism-hits-long-island/
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Some are calling it the “Francis effect” — a boom in Sunday mass attendance and even in Catholic school enrollment.
All the credit is going to the charismatic new pope, CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Tuesday.
Students on Long Island watched live as Rome selected and introduced the new pope to the world last spring, classrooms filled with applause.
Since then, Pope Francis has lit a spark.
“The pope’s main message is to be with the people, as a church. I can’t think of a better way to be with young people than to be in a school,” said Brother Kenneth Hoagland, principal of Kellenberg High School.
ome are calling it the “Francis effect” — a boom in Sunday mass attendance and even in Catholic school enrollment.
All the credit is going to the charismatic new pope, CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Tuesday.
Students on Long Island watched live as Rome selected and introduced the new pope to the world last spring, classrooms filled with applause.
Since then, Pope Francis has lit a spark.
“The pope’s main message is to be with the people, as a church. I can’t think of a better way to be with young people than to be in a school,” said Brother Kenneth Hoagland, principal of Kellenberg High School…
(Continue reading online: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/thanks-to-pope-francis-explosion-of-interest-in-catholicism-hits-long-island/)