Select Catholic Schools in Eastern Pennsylvania to be Marketed through Private Schooling Direct

Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) February 11, 2008 -- Private Schooling Direct, an Internet based private school admissions marketing company, announced today the execution of an agreement with the Diocese of Allentown (Pennsylvania) to market Catholic schools in select areas of the Diocese's territory.

The Diocese and Private Schooling Direct have reached an agreement on a pilot program to market the inner city schools, that if as expected is successful, will be expanded to all diocesan schools. Through the agreement, Private Schooling Direct has included information in its online resource for more than 25 schools in the Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem, Allentown, and Reading. In addition to the large base of parents the site already attracts, under the agreement, Private Schooling Direct is managing search terms on top search engines (i.e. Yahoo!) to drive more regionally specific traffic to the Catholic school listings.

The Diocese of Allentown joins a growing number of Roman Catholic Dioceses that have enlisted Private Schooling Direct to help attract new students to their schools via the internet. The admissions marketing firm works in varying capacities with Dioceses or Archdioceses in Detroit, MI, Atlanta, GA, Bridgeport, CT, Baltimore, MD, Trenton, NJ, Brooklyn, NY, and more.

About Private Schooling Direct, LLC

Private Schooling Direct operates www.privateschoolingdirect.com, a comprehensive directory of PK-12 private and parochial schools in the United States and other free resources for parents searching for a school. Private Schooling Direct is the nation's leading admissions marketing service for PreK-12 private and parochial schools needing to attract new students and modernize recruiting processes - all in an effort to increase enrollment numbers. For more information, please contact Jesse Josephson via telephone at 561-417-7768 or via email at jjosephson(at)privateschoolingdirect.com.

About the Diocese of Allentown

Established as a Diocese by Pope John XXIII, January 28, 1961, The Diocese of Allentown comprises the five counties of Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill situated in east central Pennsylvania. Through its 151 parishes, the Diocese serves a total Catholic population of nearly 275,000 while its 59 elementary, high schools, and special education centers have a total enrollment approaching 15,000 students. The Diocese also operates 70 preschools. For more information, please visit http://www.allentowndiocese.org/.

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