ST. LOUIS — St. Mary's South Side Catholic High School no longer has a landlord.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis sold the 23-acre campus in Dutchtown to the school last month for $1.5 million.

The purchase completes St. Mary's break from the archdiocese, which tried to close the boys' school in 2022 as part of the "All Things New" downsizing of parishes and schools.

Alumni of St. Mary's and Rosati-Kain girls' high school, which also was on the chopping block, rallied to save the schools by becoming financially independent. Rosati-Kain still leases its campus in the Central West End from the archdiocese.

St. Mary’s opened as South Side Catholic High School in 1931, and reached a peak of 1,100 students in the late 1940s. The football team won back-to-back state championships in 2021 and 202

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