Thank you all for your continued patience and grace as we navigated a very challenging week for our city and community. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you all - especially to many in our community who suffered some level of damage to your homes. Thank you also for all the responses to the Check-In form we sent yesterday. 

Over the last two days our parish maintenance staff has been hard at work surveying the school buildings on campus for any damage that may have occurred due to the weather and lack of power and water.

Unfortunately, we have bad news to share - there was significant damage to the school’s HVAC system with multiple pipes on the roof of the school bursting in multiple places. Since finding this, they have been working to diagnose the extent of the damage. There is also some limited damage in a few classrooms. 

At this time with no heating or cooling system, and no ventilation system - which is more important than ever with COVID-19 - we cannot safely have school on campus.

We are working to determine when we can return to in-person school. We are looking at multiple scenarios including if we may be able to isolate part of the HVAC system to a certain area of the school buildings where there is no damage.

At this time, we are left with no option other than to move to Remote Learning for at least this next week - February 22nd - 26th. Specific grade-level expectations will be shared with parents via the homeroom teachers. If there is a change to this plan, and we can get any students back on campus earlier, we will communicate that update as soon as possible. As we learn more information we will continue to update our community.

As with many families in our community and throughout the area, this was obviously not what we wanted to have happen and are disappointed that we are not able to return to in-person learning at this time. We know how important it is to have the students on campus and learning in-person, and we know this will be a burden to all of the families. Please rest assured that we will be doing everything we can to get students back on campus as quickly as possible. 

Thank you again for your support and understanding.

St. Cecilia, pray for us.