Here's what I think will happen. Over the next 2-3 years, the Beacons of Light parish committees will consolidate operations as expected, and some parishes will close. When you look at the groups across Cincinnati, everyone can probably guess the ones that will close in the north, east and west. They probably should close.
I think everyone assumes when those parishes close, students will just pick a school in their family and move on. I don't think that's going to happen. With no border restrictions, kids that like sports are going to pick the family that's likely to have the most sports success. It's going to cause a large enrollment boost to the schools that already have the highest enrollment.
Schools like IHM, Susanna, Ignatius, Visitation and Jude are basically going to become super teams anyway because more students, especially the better athletes, will flock to them. The rich will get richer and I think some of the smaller families, like St Marys/SMOY, Victory/Dominic, Teresa/William, Antoninus/Lourdes, James/St Anns, St Ann/Sacred Heart - will actually see a decrease in enrollment and be in danger of even further consolidation.
How can these football schools continue to pair up (e.g. Antoninus/Teresa, Jude/Lourdes) when they're not even in the same parish family? There's no way it's going to happen. How on earth are the smaller parish families going to compete with Susanna and IHM? And how are the westside parish families going to compete with the Jude/Vistation juggernaut?