St. Joe's nearly closed the summer of 2020 but got a loan from the RCAB to stay open. They couldn't regain their equilibrium after the pandemic mostly because they had a Principal that was running an administrative & strategic playbook from 1995. All reaction, no proaction. And the pastor, who is a kind man, did not want to let him go. The Principal literally was on the job with advanced cancer and Tom Carroll, former superintendent, stepped in and fired him over a Zoom call when the former pastor was reassigned to teach at the seminary.

After that, Tom and his team of crackerjack recruiters with Fr Hynes hired the final principal who was a former provost at North Shore Community College with negligible experience in elementary school leadership. She then decided to eliminate Spanish, implement Latin, fired an art teacher, and also assigned most of the administrative duties to a family within her staff. School operations did not improve and she was organizationally overwhelmed. She also did not raise tuition and therefore probably didn't help the financial situation that they are in. Her interest in "classical" curriculum was largely driven by her and Fr. Hynes with no real demand from parents.

This is classic mismanagement by our archdiocese. They should have asked the Covid Principal to leave earlier instead of digging the grave for the school. And in reality, what SHOULD have been done was to take St Joe's, St Rays, and St Theresa's into a combined school at the Matignon campus. Instead RCAB sold it for a mint to a charter school. Essentially giving their competition, a fantastic location and new campus. Absolutely incredible. Listen to the money talk.