> The most robust Catholic schools are urban/semi-urban.
 

The most robust anything, anywhere, is urban/semi-urban. Goods and services go where the customers are.
 
If you're choosing to live in a place like Bradford County, you're choosing to do without some things. It's a game of trade-offs. My grandmother owned a beautiful plot of land up there but when she died we sold it, because I'd never live there.