You wrote:
“I apologize; I misread your post.”
Could happen to anybody, thanks.
“What will the Catholic school do to hold down the costs?”
I have no idea. I don’t think there’s much they can do. Since Catholic schools employ lay teachers by-and-large today, there is simply no way to save money on the faculty (more than they do so now by paying low wages and having not-so-great benefits). Add to that problem that fact that most Catholic school administrators in diocesan schools are limited in their options and have little ingenuity in raising money (or at least have done little to do so until recent years), and the future looks pretty bleak. REALLY expensive Catholic schools attended by rich kids are doing extremely well. Take Providence Academy in Plymouth, Minnesota, for example. $14,000 a year tuition and they have families dying to get their kids in there! But those are wealthy families. Look in the parking lot and you don’t see any broken down family cars being driven by the upper classmen. They spent $41,000,000 building their school. Forty-one million. Amazing.
Supposedly, church schools have some advantage over public schools because they can use buildings that would otherwise be largely unused except on Sundays. Also, many parochial schools require students to buy their own books, don't have libraries, lunchrooms, bus systems, or special education programs (including for severely handicapped students) - so those can be significant savings.
It appears to me that there must be a bottom limit on how much expenses can be cut, however.