Cars are covered in debris near Main Street June 2, 2011 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Students at a Springfield Roman Catholic school badly damaged by tornadoes learn this week where they will attend classes in the fall.
Damage to the building that houses Cathedral High School as well as St. Michael’s Academy middle school was so severe that it’s no longer safe.
Springfield Bishop Timothy McDonnell is scheduled to announce Monday where the two schools’ nearly 650 students will take classes in September during a news conference outside the school’s gym.
Diocese officials say they have been looking at several alternate sites for the fall while they figure out whether to rebuild or repair the damaged building.
The school was among hundreds of buildings damaged by the June 1 tornadoes that killed three people in a swath of destruction across Hampden and Worcester counties.
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