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]
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]
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy of Brooklyn
Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy
Our Lady of Victory Catholic School, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
St. Anselm Catholic Academy
St. Athanasius Catholic Academy
St. Bernadette Catholic Academy
St. Bernard Catholic Academy
St. Brigid-St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Academy (Bushwick) - It formed from the 2019 merger of the St. Brigid and St. Frances Cabrini schools, with students at St. Brigid.[5] In 2019 it had about 100 students.[6]
St. Catherine of Genoa ~ St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Academy
St. Edmund School
St. Ephrem Catholic Academy
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Academy – Early Childhood
St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Academy of Queens (Maspeth)
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Academy (Woodhaven)
Saints Joachim and Anne School (Queens Village)
Former schools
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]
Cathedral College and Seminary House of Formation(Douglaston)- operated from 1967 to 2023. Served as the minor seminary for the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Seminary program closed in 2023.
Outside of the Diocese (Suffolk County)
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception (Huntington)- operated from 1926 to 2012. Served as the major seminary for Diocese of Brooklyn. The seminary was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1926 to 1957, the seminary fell under the jurisdiction of Diocese of Rockville Centre in 1957, when the Diocese was established. Brooklyn seminarians studied alongside seminarians from Rockville Centre from 1957 till 2012, when the Seminary ended its program for seminarians.
Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Academy (Mill Basin) - From circa 2014 to 2019 the enrollment declined by 60%, and in 2019 the school had $300,000 in debt. The school closed in 2019.[13] Post-closure the school administration suggested students apply to other schools, naming Midwood Catholic Academy and St. Bernard Catholic Academy as possibilities.[14] The Canarsie Courier stated that St. Bernard was the closest remaining Catholic school.[13]
Our Lady of Guadalupe School (Bensonhurst) - It was nicknamed "OLG" in the neighborhood. In 2012 the school had 217 students, but by 2019 enrollment was 120. That year its fund balance was $559,633 and its deficit was $215,377.[15] It closed in 2019.[7]
Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy (East Williamsburg[16]) Closed in 2020[17] Parents held a march asking the diocese to keep the school open.[9]
