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Sacred Heart-Waterbury says it will close at school year’s end
Sean Patrick Bowley |
February 11, 2021
Sacred Heart-Waterbury won their fourth-straight championship title in the CIAC basketball tournament, defeating Notre Dame-Fairfield, 75-53, Sunday, March 19, 2017, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville. The Hearts completed the season undefeated, 24-0. (Catherine Avalone/New Haven Register)
Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury, home to one of Connecticut’s most iconic boys basketball programs, will close at the end of the school year, officials said in a statement Thursday.
The Hartford Archdiocese conferred with the Sacred Heart High School Board of Directors Monday night. The decision to close the coed Catholic school was based on dwindling enrollment. The news was first reported by the Republican-American and WFSB-3.