Not this type of school. These schools cost a lot of money to keep operating. In the past, I would bet they had a waiting line to get in there and kids, most likely, had to take an entrance exam to get in. The inner city kids can’t afford these schools any longer and the church can’t afford to keep them open. Education isn’t free. You’ll likely see more of them closing down.
The main reason that was reported for these schools closing is the success of the city’s charter schools, in which parents don’t have to pay — beyond their taxes — to have their children educated, and the kids are not subjected to the horrors of the district-run schools which is why a lot of non-Catholics enrolled at North Catholic and Dougherty.
The lesson to be taken is to eliminate the Philadelphia Public School System and make every school a charter school.