Last Friday, parents at South City Catholic Academy were told for the first time that their school was in financial peril—and that the Archdiocese of St. Louls planned to close it after the school year ends this spring.
Now they’re hoping for a hail Mary.
Andrew Magdy, a parent with two kids at SCCA, says he first learned of the closure via an email sent 15 minutes after school pickup on Friday. “There was no author on the note, and essentially it was informing us of the school closure, citing increased capital expenditures at the parish level that would no longer allow it to help subsidize the school, and stating that the for the school to continue to run, the Archdiocese would have to contribute in excess of $675,000 a year.”…