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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's sad for people who are not uber-wealthy and not Catholic. There aren't a lot of schools that attract families from public school backgrounds. They had many, which means they are piecing together tuition and can't make 5K, 20K, 50K donations to the school on the regular.

But because other schools operate this way, local schools have to attempt to compete to woo students. Maybe they overreached with building a high school or having such a massive campus to maintain.[/quote]

The upper school was absolutely an overreach.

We were part of the SSFS community for many years until about 2010. It was a big deal when the built the PAC, the athletic center and the new middle school. One could have argued back then that only the new middle school made sense.  At the time they justified the other two buildings with the potential to monetize the space by renting the facilities in the evenings. I don’t think that math worked out for them.

Yes, the upper school facilities were old but I was shocked by the “palace” they built at a time when it seemed like they were taking on too much debt. [/quote]

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