Heartbroken parents and teachers received the news that Incarnation School, a 116-year-old Catholic elementary school in Washington Heights that counts legendary Dodger sportscaster Vin Scully as an alum, will be shutting down at the end of the current academic year. It is one of three schools the Archdiocese is planning to shut down in the last round of closures. The other two are in the Hudson Valley.
Transfiguration School in Chinatown, which won a coveted Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award in 2024, the last year the federal citation was handed out, will consolidate from three campuses to two.
The other two schools that are slated to close in the last round of cutbacks are: newer schools: Sacred Heart School founded in 1956 in Hartsdale, NY, and Most Precious Blood in Walden, NY, founded in 1966. In addition, St. Anthony and St. Paul School will consolidate into the St. Anthony campus in Nanuet, NY…