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This is a list of schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.
There are three diocesan and/or parish high schools under the auspices of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. While the Catholic high schools below may geographically lie within the diocese, most are run independently of it. [1]
Brooklyn
Queens
There were 116 diocesan and parish elementary schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens including Saint Patrick Catholic Academy located at 9707 4th Ave New York. In March 2009. In the fall of 2009, a new free tuition school called the Pope John Paul II Family Academy [2] opened [3] at St. Barbara's School in Bushwick, Brooklyn.http://s3.amazonaws.com/vspot_prod_images/uploads/group/image/70349/77009186205980060.png In 2019 two Diocese of Brooklyn elementary schools– Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Academy in Bensonhurst, and Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Academy in Mill Basin - permanently closed, and two Bushwick schools, St Brigid and St. Frances Cabrini, merged. [4]
In the 1980s the diocese had about 102 schools. From the mid-2000s to 2019 the diocese had closed 45 schools. By 2019 36 remained. [7] Three grade schools were scheduled to close in 2019, and that year another two grade schools were to merge. [8] Another six schools were scheduled to close in 2020, with the six collectively being owed $600,000 in tuition. [9]
[in image caption]Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy in Brooklyn, [...] after the school closed last month.