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Trinity Catholic High School in Spanish Lake township, north of St. Louis, pictured in May 2020 (Wikimedia Commons/DiamondRemley39)
On the evening of Feb. 25, Kimora Williams, 17, and Elijah Brooks, 16, two juniors at Trinity Catholic High School north of St. Louis, both saw emails flash onto their computer screens.
They were from the St. Louis Archdiocese. Trinity Catholic would close at the end of the academic year. The two were stunned. I was angry. I was confused. I was overwhelmed, Williams told NCR.
A letter attached to the email said that enrollment at the school, located in a predominantly African American area just a 15-minute drive from Ferguson, Missouri, had slipped too low and the building was too old to maintain.