04.22.2025 Jennifer Lopez’s Alma Mater to Stay Open as Nuns Sell to a Casino Firm
Less than a month ago, Preston High School in the Bronx seemed destined for an all-too- familiar fate: another urban Catholic school being forced to close because of financial distress and shrinking enrollment.
But to students, staff members and a large network of alumni, the closing did not make sense. Preston’s finances were in order and its enrollment was near capacity. So the school’s supporters, hoping to defy a decades-long trend, waged a campaign to save it.
On Tuesday, their efforts paid off.
Less than two months after administrators announced that Preston would close at the end of this school year, they reversed course under pressure from Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, and other elected officials. The school’s two buildings will be sold to the Bally’s Corporation, which has promised to extend Preston’s lease.