{"id":368350,"date":"2026-08-11T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368350\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:52:09","slug":"about-37000-students-return-to-catholic-schools-as-archdiocese-of-miami-sees-enrollment-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368350\/","title":{"rendered":"About 37,000 students return to Catholic schools as Archdiocese of Miami sees enrollment growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM<\/p>\n<p>About 37,000 students are heading back to class at Catholic schools across South Florida as the Archdiocese of Miami begins the 2026-2027 school year with growing enrollment and new investments in its campuses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla.  \u2014 About 37,000 students are heading back to class at Catholic schools across South Florida as the Archdiocese of Miami begins the 2026-2027 school year with growing enrollment and new investments in its campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The archdiocese says it continues to see increased enrollment across its 65 Catholic schools in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/features\/2026\/08\/06\/share-your-back-to-school-photos-with-local-10-as-students-return-to-class-across-south-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/features\/2026\/08\/06\/share-your-back-to-school-photos-with-local-10-as-students-return-to-class-across-south-florida\/\">CLICK HERE <\/a>to submit your back to school pictures to Local 10 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To meet the growing demand for Catholic education and accommodate the larger student population, schools are expanding classroom space, renovating facilities and adding academic programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At St. Theresa Catholic School in Coral Gables, students are starting the year with new STEM classrooms aimed at expanding opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The school is also preparing for a major expansion later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">St. Theresa is expected to break ground on a new multipurpose center, which will be the first new building constructed on the campus in more than 70 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The new facility will provide dedicated spaces for art and music classrooms, a gymnasium and a performing arts stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The projects at St. Theresa are part of broader investments and expansions underway across the Archdiocese of Miami as its schools work to accommodate increased enrollment and demand.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jackie Pascale\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7459247a-7a40-428f-b513-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jackie Pascale<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jackie Pascale joined the Local 10 News team in July 2025 as a reporter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM About 37,000 students are heading back to class at Catholic schools across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-368350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}