Two Capital Region Catholic schools will merge next school year.
Catholic Central School and Notre-Dame Bishop Gibbons will combine their high school students in the 2026-27 school year.
Currently, Catholic Central, located in Latham, has 22 students in grades eight through 11. Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Bishop Mark O’Connell says students will move to the Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons campus in Schenectady.
O'Connell cites low enrollment numbers for the consolidation.
“When something is spiraling down you can just hold your eyes and let it die, or you can intervene and pump some spirit into it,” O’Connell said.
Catholic Central will continue to serve pre-K through eighth grade, and Bishop Gibbons will serve grades six through 12.
O’Connell says this new model will create one school with two campuses, and a school president — a new position for the Albany diocese — will oversee both.
