Two Catholic Schools to Close in St. Paul, Minnesota

Invariably in stories like this the first commenter will invariably make the boneheaded complaint about sex abuse. The real story as some of the commenters have surmised is that enrollments are down because people aren't having children. In this case, the inner-city parish is losing its Catholic population becausee

In a tough environment of declining enrollment and demographic changes in local neighborhoods, two Roman Catholic schools in St. Paul said they will close at the end of the school year.

St. Bernard's High School and Holy Childhood School, which serves a pre-K-8 population, both faced dwindling enrollment and had become a burden on their parishes, said officials of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in announcing the closings Thursday evening.

St. Bernard's closing comes less than a year after it shuttered its lower school and set plans to become the state's first Catholic high school offering an International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Currently, St. Bernard's has 198 students in grades nine through 12 at its location off Rice Street.

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