Ladywood High School in Livonia is closing in 2018

LIVONIA, Mich. – Ladywood High School will close in 2018. 

The all-girls Catholic high school announced it will be closing its doors at the end of the school year due to declining enrollment. 

Since 2005 enrollment dropped 60 percent at the school on Newburgh Road just south of 5 Mile Road. There are 169 students attending the high school right now. 

The chair of the school's board of trustees Sister Alfonsa Van Overberghe said the board didn't want to raise tuition to prohibitive levels. 

The school opened in 1950 and has more than 6,000 alumnae.