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Mother Cabrini High School

Field	Value
name	Mother Cabrini High School
image	Mother Cabrini High School 701 Fort Washington Avenue.jpg
imagesize	325px
caption	(2013)
streetaddress	701 Fort Washington Avenue
city	Manhattan, New York City
state	New York
zipcode	10040
country	USA
religion	Roman Catholic
type	Parochial, All-Female
tuition	$6,490 (planned for 2014–2015)
grades	9–12
slogan	Educating the Mind, Character, Heart, and Soul since 1899
accreditation	Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
sports	Varsity Basketball, Varsity Volleyball, Varsity Softball
patron	St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
colors	Blue and Gold
established	1899
closed	2014
homepage	www.cabrinihs.com (defunct)

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Mother Cabrini High School (MCHS) was a Catholic high school located at 701 Fort Washington Avenue between Fort Tryon Park and West 190th Street, with a facade on Cabrini Boulevard, in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

The school was established as "Sacred Heart Villa" in 1899 by Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917) and was sponsored by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order she founded. It offered specialized and distinctive programs of study to enhance the education of its students, all female. The name was changed to Mother Cabrini High School when the current main building opened in 1930.

The school drew its students from "all over New York City and Westchester, with a large concentration of students from Manhattan and the Bronx." Through much of its history, the student body was largely the children of Irish and Italian immigrants, but by the time of its closure in 2014, the school was predominantly Latino, primarily from the Dominican Republic.

In January 2014, the school announced that it would close at the end of the school year.

From 1933 to 1959, the body of Mother Cabrini laid in repose in the school's chapel, until it was moved to the Cabrini Shrine that was built next to the high school.

Awards and recognition

Mother Cabrini High School was twice recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.

Closure

On January 14, 2014, the Board of Trustees of the school announced on the school website that Mother Cabrini High School would close at the end of the school year, due to "increased costs and diminishing revenue." A post on the website elaborated, saying that the school's deficit had reached "unsustainable levels", despite a projected increase in enrollment and rental income. The deficit was blamed on:

Some of the school's alumni and parents of current students said they would try to save the school, but the Board believed that the deficit was insurmountable.

Cabrini was the second Catholic school to close in two years in the Washington Heights/Inwood area, after St. Jude School. Four other Catholic schools remained in the area.

In April 2014 it was announced that Success Academy Charter Schools, a charter school operator with 22 locations in the city, would open a school in the Mother Cabrini High School building for the 2014–2015 school year.

References

MSA-CSS. "MSA-Commission on Secondary Schools".
Martin, Julia. (May 6, 1999). "A Century: Cabrini High School continues founder's mission". Catholic New York.
[http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/15/mother-cabrini-high-school-to-close-its-doors-after-115-years/ "Mother Cabrini High School To Close Its Doors After 115 Years"] ''CBS New York'' (January 15, 2014)
[https://cabrinishrinenyc.org/about-the-shrine/ "About the Shrine"]. St. Frances X. Cabrini Shrine NYC. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
[http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1972 -1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF)] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-03-26 , [[United States Department of Education]]. Accessed May 11, 2006.)
link. (2007-08-19 , ''[[Journal Inquirer]]'', November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve.")
Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; ''[[The Washington Post]]''. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
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(September 23, 2015). "With Deep Sadness". Mother Cabrini High School.
Chiwaya, Nigel. [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140114/hudson-heights/mother-cabrini-high-school-close-at-end-of-school-year "Mother Cabrini High School to Close at End of School Year"] {{webarchive. link. (2014-12-21 ''DNAinfo New York'' (January 14, 2014))
Brown, Stephen Rex. [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/city-secures-spaces-success-academy-charter-schools-article-1.1770041 "City secures spaces for three Success Academy charter schools"] ''[[New York Daily News]]'' (April 26, 2014)

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