Pomona : Private School to Close
Despite a last-ditch effort by parents to find new students, officials at Central Christian School say sagging enrollment has forced them to close the small private school after 17 years of operation.
Central Baptist Church notified parents June 11 that it was no longer financially feasible to operate the school, which has 81 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. To break even, the school needed another 122 students paying $165-a-month tuition, church officials said.
Upset by the news, parents began a campaign to increase enrollment but fell far short. “It would have been a wonderful grass-roots recovery,” said Principal Wayne Temple. “I’m very sad. But right now we feel this is the only way to go.”
Founded in 1970, the school at its peak had 450 students from kindergarten to high school.
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