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Miranda Case Study

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Our Lady Star of the Sea catholic parish Miranda was established and founded in 1951 as well as the connecting school. It is a lively and welcoming community that strives to involve all members of the Miranda catholic faction in the church through their faith in God. The church has two priests, the parish priest Fr John Greig and assistant priest Fr Nicholas Rynne who run many masses and services during the week for parishioners. These include Saturday vigil, Sunday mass, weekdays (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Saturday reconciliation. In Miranda, there is a catholic population of 5,470 people. Of these people, as seen in the graph on the board, the ages of Catholics attending church range from 0-9 years old up to 80+ with the median age being 37 years of age. The highest age group of people attending mass is 40-49. Of these parishioners, the majority of men and women work or are seeking employment with a small percentage of 1.61% of the catholic community unemployed at the time of …show more content…

A large percentage of these families have kids and of these children, some are involved in the catholic schooling system whilst others go to government run schools. As the graph shows, government schools are the more popular school option to provide education in the Miranda district. The primary school statistics have a percentage of 50.5% of catholic children going to a state school compared to the 47.0% of children attending catholic schools. The results for secondary education are quite similar with the percentage of 48.4% of teenagers attending public high schools and 46.7% of catholic teenagers attending catholic schools. Although these numbers in theory don’t look alarming, when compared to the 2006 census it shows a massive ‘switch’ to the public schooling

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