After operating for 151 years, St. Stanislaus Kostka Academy in Chicago will close at the end of the 2025-26 school year.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Catholic elementary school cited years of declining enrollment and an anticipated $500,000 deficit as the reason for the closure.
“The school has been on life support for some time,” said the Rev. Anthony Bus, St. Stanislaus pastor. “Unfortunately, the financial burden on the Academy makes the school no longer sustainable.”
Even with more than $500,000 raised to keep 85% of its students in school and more than $60,000 in donations from Mass attendees, the school will still have a looming deficit at the end of the school year, Bus says.
Bus says the school “will work toward a fitting closure that honors the long legacy of St. Stanislaus Kostka Academy and what it has meant to generations of families since its opening 151 years ago.”
