Rosati-Kain students arrive at the high school on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. The Archdiocese of St. Louis announced it will close the Central West End girls’ Catholic high school adjacent to the Basilica at the end of the year. St. Mary’s High School on St. Louis’ south side was also put on the closure list.
SHREWSBURY — The decision to close Rosati-Kain and St. Mary’s high schools was primarily based on declining enrollment and income, St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski said Wednesday.
The high schools in St. Louis city are the smallest single-sex schools in the archdiocese, with 188 girls enrolled at Rosati-Kain and 222 boys at St. Mary’s this year.
Catholic education started in the city in the 1800s to serve a booming immigrant population, but demographic trends including population loss have resulted in too many schools, Rozanski said at a press conference at the Cardinal Rigali Center a day after school leaders confirmed the closures.
At St. Mary’s, 90% of students receive financial aid, 28% come from low-income families and more than half are not Catholic. The archdiocese did not release similar figures for Rosati-Kain.
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The schools are no longer financially viable and will be shuttered “in order to be good stewards of the gifts being given to us,” Rozanski said.
The two high schools are the first casualties of the archdiocese’s “All Things New” reorganization plan, which is expected to close dozens of parishes and grade schools when final plans are announced next year.
“Having a vibrant presence in every area of the archdiocese doesn’t necessarily mean that we maintain all the current ministries we have in all the current locations,” said the Rev. Chris Martin, who is leading the process.
St. Mary’s leaders said they are now working on breaking off from the Archdiocese and stay open as an independent high school.
Rozanski said Wednesday he is “open to any suggestions” and willing to work with the schools on future plans.
This story will be updated.
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