It was quite a crowd in the cafeteria at St. Mary’s School during the open house Wednesday, Feb. 9.
“It was very successful; a good crowd,” said St. Mary’s Principal Patricia Bliss.
Ten families registered and toured the school, according to Bliss, but as of presstime Tuesday, Feb. 15, none had yet followed through with enrollment decisions.
The principal said she had also not heard from the 50-pupil Sacred Heart Home Schoolers, a local organization that had been conducting a Novena – a prayer for guidance – to determine if they should make common cause with the parochial school on Route 7.
The St. Mary’s School board had voted in December to ask the Diocese of Albany to consider closing the school, where enrollment had dropped to 50 students. (The current drive is seeking to raise that number to 70.)
The diocesan school board was unwilling to make that recommendation to Bishop Howard Hubbard and asked the St. Mary’s board to reconsider by February.
With public interest piqued, the St. Mary’s board asked for an extension until March, and will be meeting March 8 to determine if there’s been sufficient response to warrant keeping St. Mary’s open, Bliss said.
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