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	Catholic School Shutting Its Doors in Waterbury WFSB [Waterbury CT] May 19, 2005 WATERBURY-- After fifty-one years, a local Catholic school in Waterbury is shutting it's doors. Generations of children have come to Saint Lucy's, and parents say this is a sad day for a place that always welcomed kids. The archdiocese says one of the big reasons why the school is closing is because the population is aging. They say the number of baptisms has fallen 77 percent over the last ten years. According to the Department of Health, the number of births in Waterbury has dropped by half over the same period. Parents are saying the 22 hundred dollar a year tuition and the priest sex abuse scandals did not help either. "People lost trust in the Catholic church", says parent Emerald Dasent. Dasent is just hoping she'll be able to find a school that her children will like. But she says it won't be the same. The archdiocese has decided it will close the school on June 30th. They say there were 118 kids enrolled in the school this year. Enerollment projections for next are just 62 students.
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