The news came as a shock to students at Hallahan Catholic School in Spring Garden Wednesday night, when they found out that their school would be closing.

The buildings that housed the former John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School have been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places following a commission hearing on Nov. 12.

Students at Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School in Philadelphia plan to stage a walkout Friday in response to the impending closure of their school.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia says it will close Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School and Bishop McDevitt High School at the end of the school year. The archdiocese is ...

Students, family members, teachers, and alumni of John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School celebrated the school’s final graduation ceremony Monday, with many uttering the word “bittersweet ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A bid to reopen a prominent Philadelphia all-girls Catholic high school has lost a round in court. The Friends of Hallahan are promising their fight is far from over in ...

The former campus of John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School in Center City has been sold to an entity tied to the chairman of Belmont Charter Network for $15 million, writes Ryan Mulligan ...

Philly nonprofit hopes to open a new all-girls high school to replace Hallahan Hallahan closed in June due to declining enrollment and financial woes. The Center City Girls’ Academy could replace it ...

Three months after the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced that John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School would close, the school's students, alumnae and parents are still pushing Archbishop ...

On the website, Change.org, a woman identifying herself as an alum of John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School in Center City, Philadelphia posted a petition on Oct. 10 with an urgent, bolded ...

Roman Catholic High School’s Alumni Association remembers the support we received over 34 years ago from the Hallahan community when Roman was threatened with closure in 1986.