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"WORCESTER — The low enrollment that has St. Mary's Junior/Senior High School on the brink of closing is far from unique to that parish school.
In the city as a whole, the number of Worcester children enrolled in Catholic schools in the 2012-13 school year was less than half what it was in the 1983-1984, the earliest comparison year on the Worcester public schools' Oct. 1 enrollment report.
St. Mary's was down to approximately 90 students in Grades 7-12 when the Rev. Thaddeus X. Stachura, headmaster, announced this month that he planned to close St. Mary's. He said the elementary school would remain open. Since then, Bishop Robert J. McManus has given school supporters 75 days to come up with a plan to save it.
St. Mary's was the last parish-supported high school in Central Massachusetts. Other high schools, such as Holy Name and St. Peter-Marian, are run by the diocese, and still others, such as St. John's High School in Shrewsbury and Notre Dame Academy in Worcester, are private. Parish-run secondary schools have faced special challenges."
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