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Notre Dame Academy in Belleville and St. Ann in Nashville, Illinois will both close at the end of the school year, citing declining enrollments.
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The cost-saving measures enacted by the private Clayton-based university will reduce the next two fiscal year's budgets by more than $2 million combined.
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The school was still calling for new students to enroll on social media as recently as last week.
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The document cost more than $600,000 to develop, $225,000 of which was paid by St. Louis Public Schools.
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La Salle Charter Schools, a middle school in St. Louis' Carr Square neighborhood that serves a predominantly Black student population, will close at the end of the year. Leaders said low test scores caused the school to lose the confidence of its academic sponsors.
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St. Louis Archdiocese leadership said feedback from the community highlighted the need to postpone plans to close schools.
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Belleville is using tax increment finance money to close the deal even though Mayor Patty Gregory said the city would use a state grant to pay for the property.
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City Attorney Garrett Hoerner said the city is in “preliminary planning stages” of what it would do with the campus.
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St. Louis' school buildings have half as many kids in them as other big cities and school districts do.
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The bioscience-themed high school lacks permanent laboratories. But students are skeptical of moving to a new site.