i wish i attended a catholic school
The Irish influx brought most of the Catholic Schools to the US
Are these schools directly run by the Catholic church?
They are parochial schools or ecucation ministries that are adminstrated by the Catholic Church
What is the purpose of the church setting up school?
Catholic school
Catholic schools are parochial schools or education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. , the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system. In 2016, the church supported 43,800 secondary schools, and 95,200 primary schools. Catholic schools participate in the evangelizing mission of the Church, integrating religious education as a core subject within their curriculum.
Background.
Irish immigration provides the main contribution to the increases in Catholic communities across the globe. The Irish immigration established the revival of Catholicism through movement to countries
model, the largest of which is state-integrated schools. State-integrated schools are parochial schools or private schools that have been "integrated" into the state school system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975, usually because they have run into financial difficulty. These schools are run the same as state schools, but they are allowed to retain their special character. Proprietors of the school (e.g. the Catholic Church in the case of a Catholic school) own the integrated school facilities and sit on the school's board