As the KIng of Siam said.
(February 15, 2023 – Manhattan, NY) – The Office of the Superintendent of Schools of the Archdiocese of New York today announced 12 Catholic schools will cease operations at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. Four schools will merge into two. (The Announcement is HERE)
- Academy of St. Paul & St. Ann, Manhattan
- Ascension School, Manhattan
- Guardian Angel School, Manhattan
- Holy Family School, Bronx
- Immaculate Conception School, Manhattan
- Immaculate Conception School, 760 E Gun Hill Rd, Bronx*
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Manhattan
- Santa Maria School, Bronx
- St. Angela Merici School, Bronx
- St. Brendan School, Bronx
- St. Christopher School, Staten Island
- St. Margaret Mary School, Bronx
- St. Francis Xavier, Bronx, will merge with St. Clare of Assisi.
- St. Gabriel School, Bronx, will merge with St. Margaret of Cortona.
EV Grieve reports on the closing of Immaculate Conception School:
The school dates to 1864 (find a PDF with history here), part of the Immaculate Conception church when it was at 505 E. 14th St. The (original -SC) church, on the north side of 14th, was demolished in the 1940s to make way for Stuy Town.
The school’s current building was completed in 1945. Per Wikipedia:
In 1943 the parish took over the chapel and hospital buildings now known as Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses, completed in 1896 to designs by Barney and Chapman and formerly owned by Grace Church. This existing facility was expanded with a four-story brick convent and parochial school at 415-419 E. 13th St. and 414-416 E. 14th St. … and completed in 1945.
(Immaculate Conception School) is the last Catholic grade school (serving students K-8) in the East Village. The archdiocese shut down St. Brigid School, founded in 1856, at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.
On Guardian Angel School:
Guardian Angel, nearly 123 years old and the last Catholic elementary School left in Chelsea, will shut down at the end of the current academic year as part of a new rounds of closures announced by the Archdiocese of New York last week.
“It feels like one of the cornerstones of Chelsea is going to be gone,” said Eddie Edmonds, 58 the oldest of five siblings who graduated from there.
Kelly, Keith J., “Guardian Angel, the Last Catholic Elementary School in Chelsea, to Close,” The Spirit, 19/2/2023
On Ascension School:
Parents of children at Ascension were stunned and disappointed that the 126 year old school will be no more. A school originally opened on West 107th in 1897, the same year that the largely working class German immigrants had built the Ascension Church. The opening of the churtch meant that Mass no longer had to be celebrated in the basement of the massive Lion Bre(w)ery, that once occupied six sity blocks in the neighborhood. In its heyday, the parish boasted 10,000 parishioners and the school that had 1,100 students with the boys taught by the Christian Brothers and the girls taught by the Sisters of Charity. At the end, it had less than 290 students. Still the end sent shock waves through the community.
Kay Bontempo, “Parents Stunned as 126-year-old Ascension School Slated to Close,” The Spirit, 17/2/2023
St. Paul and St. Ann Academy:
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