Newington Catholic School Closes 2 Weeks Before School Year Begins

A Catholic school in Newington has closed two weeks before the school year was supposed to begin.

Saint Mary School made the decision on Wednesday night to shut down immediately after a financial review by the new Saint Mary parish administrator and parish trustees. 

"It was an extremely difficult decision to close the school two weeks before the start of the school year, but the school would not have been able to sustain itself financially," the school administrator Reverend Shawn T. Daly said in an  announcement.

“Saint Mary School would have run out of capital midway through the school year," he said.

The school is already in $300,000 worth of debt and keeping the school open would add an addition $200,000 to that bill, Daly told NBC Connecticut. 

Parents are upset and protesters stood outside of the school on Wednesday night with signs that read, 'What would Jesus do?'

The school recommends that the 109 students enrolled at Saint Mary School for the 2016-2017 academic year to consider attending the newly-created St. Brigid-St. Augustine Partnership School in West Hartford, which is located 2.9 miles from Saint Mary’s.

In addition to the Partnership School, there are other Catholic schools to consider within a five-mile radius of Saint Mary’s.

They are:

  • Corpus Christi School, Wethersfield
  • Sacred Heart School, New Britain
  • St. Thomas the Apostle School, West Hartford
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