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(82,333 posts) Fri Dec 2, 2016, 06:27 PM Dec 2016

Muslim families sending children to Catholic schools

More than 26,000 Muslim pupils are enrolled in Catholic schools in England and Wales.

By Sean Coughlan
1 December 2016

For the first time an annual census of Catholic schools has collected information on the number of pupils from other religions.

The biggest group of non-Catholic pupils are from other Christian denominations - but almost a tenth are from Muslim families.

The government has plans to encourage more Catholic free schools to open.

This analysis shows that, overall, nearly a third of the more than 850,000 pupils within the Catholic school system are not Catholic - a total of almost 290,000.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38157812

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