Few Latino Kids Attend Catholic Schools - Here's Why

When Michael Guerra saw that a public school education wasn't a good fit for his young daughter, he began looking for an alternative. He turned to the principal of St. Matthew Catholic School, where he teaches, for advice.

"She convinced me to bring her here, and it was the best thing I could've done," he said. "I like the discipline and the core Catholic values she's learning at this school."

Guerra's 6-year-old daughter is now a first-grader at St. Matthew Catholic School, located in a predominately Latino neighborhood in Phoenix.

She's also one of the few Hispanic children attending a Catholic school in the United States. Less than 300,000 Hispanic children — just 4 percent of the 8 million Hispanic school age Catholics and 2.3 percent of the 12.4 million Hispanic school age population in the country — attend a Catholic school, according to a recent report by Boston College.

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