Archdiocese to Close Pater Noster High School
The Los Angeles Archdiocese said it will close Pater Noster High School in Northeast Los Angeles at the end of June because of declining enrollment.
The all-boys school, at San Fernando Road and the Glendale Freeway, has dwindled from 325 students to only 192 over the last five years, said Msgr. Aidan M. Carroll, superintendent of schools for the archdiocese. Also contributing to the decision were the lack of a gym or multipurpose room and the need for costly maintenance, including the removal of asbestos from the multistory former commercial building housing the school.
The archdiocese ruled out a plan to save the school by admitting girls and building a multipurpose room after a two-year study concluded that other nearby Catholic schools would be harmed, Carroll said. Pater Noster was opened in 1960 by the Brothers of St. Patrick. It is one of 55 Catholic high schools in the three-county archdiocese.
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