Since 1990, however, the decline has slowed. In the twenty years from 1990 to 2010, enrollment in Catholic schools declined from 2.5 million to 2.1 million.<ref name="NCEA">http://www.ncea.org/faq/catholiceducationfaq.asp</ref> But only about 600,000 of that enrollment is in Catholic high schools.<ref name="NCEA"/> Thus more than 95% of Catholic high school students are in [[atheistic]] [[public school]]. | Since 1990, however, the decline has slowed. In the twenty years from 1990 to 2010, enrollment in Catholic schools declined from 2.5 million to 2.1 million.<ref name="NCEA">http://www.ncea.org/faq/catholiceducationfaq.asp</ref> But only about 600,000 of that enrollment is in Catholic high schools.<ref name="NCEA"/> Thus more than 95% of Catholic high school students are in [[atheistic]] [[public school]]. |