Resurrection Catholic School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has announced it will shut down at the end of the school year.
Lancaster Online reports that the Harrisburg diocese decided to close the school because of its strugglling finances, which made it difficult to carry out needed capital improvements to the school building.
The school has an enrollment of 102 students from preschool through eighth grade and employs 22 staff members.
For several years, the school has faced operating deficits, partly because of stagnant enrollment and high subsidies facing the parishes supporting it.
Lancaster County’s remaining Catholic schools serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade are Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Lancaster city, St. Leo the Great in East Hempfield Township, Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Ephrata Borough, Our Lady of the Angels in Columbia, and St. John Neumann in Manheim Township.
Lancaster Catholic High School in Manheim Township is the county's only Catholic high school.
Resurrection Catholic School was founded in 1991 as a consolidation of St. Mary’s, St. Joseph's and St. Anthony’s Catholic Schools – schools that, according to the Resurrection’s website, had served Catholic families for more than 166 years.
