Private schools moving to suburbs.(news)

BYLINE: JULIET V. CASEY, REVIEW-JOURNAL

Walking through Bishop Gorman High School's crowded downtown campus, Richard Facciolo squeezes past students, dodges swinging doors and shakes his head at the substandard field the school uses for sports.

"It's not even a baseball field," Facciolo said. "It's an infield. We have no football field or soccer field. Our gym is really small."

Facciolo, superintendent of education for the Las Vegas Diocese, said the city's only Catholic high school for years has been operating in an aging facility that now pales in comparison with other private schools, and public ones, too.

So, like other valley private schools before it, Bishop Gorman is leaving downtown for a new campus in the suburbs. Last week, the diocese announced plans for the new campus on some 40 acres near the Las Vegas Beltway, at the valley's southwestern edge. The diocese expects to open the new school in fall 2007.

Not long ago, students at Faith Lutheran Junior-Senior High School were crammed into classrooms, wishing for a ball field and functioning air conditioning.

Their campus moved from its tiny downtown home on Robin…