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"We always play with each other," said first grader, Terri Harris, 5, left, while receiving a hug from Aliana Nguyen, 5, in the school cafeteria at St. Agnes Catholic School on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. "I didn't have a friend, so I made Aliana my friend", Terri added. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
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Latin teacher, Mr. Dan Berthiaume, teaches 7th graders at St. Agnes School about subject verb agreement on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
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"We always play with each other," said first grader, Terri Harris, 5, left, while receiving a hug from Aliana Nguyen, 5, in the school cafeteria at St. Agnes Catholic School on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. "I didn't have a friend, so I made Aliana my friend", Terri added. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
Latin teacher, Mr. Dan Berthiaume, teaches 7th graders at St. Agnes School about subject verb agreement on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
"We always play with each other," said first grader, Terri Harris, 5, left, while receiving a hug from Aliana Nguyen, 5, in the school cafeteria at St. Agnes Catholic School on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. "I didn't have a friend, so I made Aliana my friend", Terri added. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
Latin teacher, Mr. Dan Berthiaume, teaches 7th graders at St. Agnes School about subject verb agreement on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Five years ago, parents at St. Agnes Catholic School in Frogtown got a letter saying the school was bleeding money and that the school would have to close. Thanks to a couple of large donations and an enrollment push, the school survived and made a turnaround. It is now debt-free and up 30 percent on enrollment. (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)
ExpandParents at St. Agnes School got an unsettling letter five years ago: After almost 120 years in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood, the Roman Catholic school would likely have to close.
The news didn’t come as a complete surprise. The K-12 school had bled dollars and students for years. More surprising was what followed: St. Agnes warded off closure and engineered a comeback that today finds it debt-free and growing.
This week, parents received a ve ...
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