Studies of population growth, statistics about the explosive growth in Round Rock expected over the next 10 years, demographic analysis of the location of the Catholic population in Williamson and northern Travis county, review of the distance to the nearest private and Catholic schools … these are useful, and they indicate that the school should grow quickly, but there are other measures.
One very obvious measure is the interest shown by prospective parents and/or donors during the informational meetings. I attended one which was quite well attended and included many parents with children in the Holy Family school, and my wife went to the recent informational meeting at St. Theresa which was also well attended. What do I conclude from these early meetings?
1) there are going to be enough students for a more-than-minimal-size initial freshman class.
2) those who want to help include some very bright, well educated, well connected and strongly motivated Catholics
3) the interest is not from just one elementary school – this is by no means “Holy Family High School,” even though the new high school is close to Holy Family elementary school. Based on comments from prospective parents it looks like the first few classes at the new high school will include students from many schools.
