BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — There is an effort to keep South Buffalo's only remaining Catholic grammar school open.
Friends of Notre Dame Academy hosted a homecoming dinner at Cloverbank Country Club on Rogers Road in Hamburg.
Notre Dame educates some 500 students across eight parishes that had to close their own schools because of financial problems and declining enrollment.
Many of the people attending Saturday night's dinner went to one of those eight Catholic schools as children.
"Right now, we are in the green but it just won't last long term," said event chairperson Peggy Sperber. "A lot of schools like ours did receive PPP funding during COVID and that really helped with payroll during that. That funding is now gone, so we have to plan for the future because mostly tuition is what's sustaining us."
Notre Dame Academy no longer receives any funding from the Catholic Diocese. It is also a regional school so it is not supported by a church parish.
