The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany has announced two Catholic schools in the Capital Region are slated to close.
The diocese says it weighed financial, enrollment and infrastructure challenges faced by its schools before deciding to shutter Sacred Heart School in Troy due to low enrollment and All Saints Catholic Academy in Albany due to financial challenges and needed building repairs. Kathy Barrans is the diocese’s Director of Communications.
“The new cooperative effort keeps Mater Christi School as a pre-K through 8th grade, Blessed Sacrament will become a Pre-K through 5th, and All Saints will close. This was a difficult, but necessary decision. Deficits at each school along with the inability of All Saints parish to provide financial support and needed building repairs at the school, all factored into the final decision,” Barrans said…