Schools
Peekskill's Assumption School to Close this Year
The school would have needed to raise $3 million during a three-year period in order to stay open, according to church officials.
The Assumption School in Peekskill is closing at the end of this school year, the Archdiocese of New York announced Tuesday.
Assumption, which has about 200 students, is one of 26 Catholic elementary schools that the Archdiocese announced in November were at risk of closing.
Pastors and principals at Assumption and other at-risk elementary schools met with officials from the Archdiocese earlier this month to make a case for why the school should remain open. In the end, it wasn't enough.
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In a letter sent out parents earlier today, Father John Higgins of the Church of the Assumption said the school had to demonstrate the ability to stay financially solvent during the next three years in order to continue operating.
"In terms of dollars, that means $3 million over the next three years," Higgins wrote. "Though there were many beautiful gestures to help, symbolic donations made and ideas proposed, $3 million dollars is a financial hurdle that is impossible for us to surmount."
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