At a press conference this afternoon, in front of the damaged Cathedral High School building on Surrey Road, officials from the Springfield Diocese and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a $38 million agreement that will reportedly lead to the rebuilding of the high school, as well as an adjacent pre-school and middle school.
What the new high school will be remains to be seen. Enrollment, which was more than 3,000 students in our time, is now 228 high school students, and a building of smaller scale may be appropriate. It appears, however, that a new Cathedral High School will replace the building in which we spent four years.
What do you see in Cathedral’s future? Continuing small enrollment? A return to the “glory days”? 🙂
The new Cathedral High School probably should be built on a smaller scale than our original school. Due to high costs of education, there will be fewer families able to send their childrn to a school like Cathedral. However, it should not be built based on current enrollment but rather based on up to approximately 1000 students. Hopefully with the planned endowment fund, tuition could be more affordable.