Reply #4: I don't think Catholic schools can be easily classified. In some cities,

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Catholic grammar schools are the alternative to dysfunctional public schools and are filled with non-Catholic black students. In other places, Catholic grammar schools became the refuge for whites fleeing desegregation. My high school tuition was $25/month when I started and my class mates had parents who were doctors, lawyers, nurses, steel workers etc; middle class to upper middle class. Today, tuition is higher there than for my kids at the state university. There is no way I could afford to send my daughters there.