Frequently Asked Questions
What do the Catholic HS offer students and families:
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One on one high school planning to match students goals and aspirations.
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While in high school, expose students to an environment rich in values and beliefs modeled by Jesus’s love for one another and self.
What colleges and universities offer special scholarships to our students…total amount from each school.
What academic and extracurricular programs are available to challenge students?
All schools offer strong academic options, including College Credit Plus, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate classes.
All schools feature Specialty programs in leadership, arts, STEM, and other academic subjects. Several of these college preparatory high schools also feature career-oriented programs in areas such as healthcare, technology, engineering, business, and entrepreneurship.
What supports are available for students?
Catholic schools deliver a wide range of services, and they do so, most importantly, in a climate of genuine care and compassion.
All Catholic high schools welcome students with diagnosed special needs, and most are providers for the Jon Peterson Scholarship Program and Autism Scholarship programs. These Ohio scholarships ensure that students with IEPs can receive necessary services in private schools.
Tending to student social and emotional needs is a feature of the family-oriented culture of the schools, which also provide a wide range of services by professionals including school counselors, nurses, and social workers. Most schools participate in the federal free or reduced lunch program or have an equivalent local program.
How can I make attending a Catholic High School affordable for my family?
Each school sets its own tuition level, and every school offers tuition assistance, including need-based financial aid, academic scholarships and other specialty scholarships. Some also feature work-study programs and/or provide service scholarship programs.
All residents of the City of Cleveland are eligible for scholarships of at least $6000 to private schools, including these Catholic high schools, through the Cleveland Scholarship Program.
With all of these resources, a Catholic high school education is available for low or possibly no additional cost. For more information, contact the school(s) to which you are interested in applying.
Do students graduate prepared for college or a career?
Students in Catholic Schools are well prepared for college and career. Catholic high schools in the city feature a graduation rate of 97%.
Cleveland residents who graduate from Catholic high schools are five times more likely to meet Ohio’s “Prepared for Success” standard than those who attend their public option.
Do students at these schools go on to college? Do they graduate college?
In Cleveland’s Catholic high schools:
81% of graduates attend 4-year colleges upon graduation.
11% of graduates attend 2 year colleges upon graduation.
1.5% of graduates joined the military.
How do graduates pay for college?
Federal assistance such as Pell grants are available to all citizens regardless of from where they graduate high school.
The 1117 Graduates in the class of 2020 for the 12 Cleveland-area Catholic high schools amassed $119,891,252.
Nationwide, 86% of students received some type of financial aid while attending a 4-year institution in 2020-2021. The average grant and scholarship aid received by them was $17,015.
Are students and families helped with the college admissions process?
Catholic high school students receive college counseling assistance to walk them through the process of selecting and applying for schools as well as grants, scholarships and the financial aid process.
Schools have counselors, most with dedicated college counselors, and partnerships with organizations such as Greater Cleveland College Now.
How do I enroll?
Catholic High Schools all have their own application process. Click here to learn how to enroll.
While Catholic high schools are not included in the initiative “Say Yes to Education Cleveland” (the nonprofit program that provides last-dollar assistance for tuition only to CMSD high school graduates – limited when household income is over $75,000), there are many advantages to attending a Catholic high school, there are also scholarships available to families to make a Catholic education affordable – so we invite you to SAY AMEN! and enroll in a Catholic high school