We think that we'll get through this. Closing All Saints is unthinkable, many parents said. A tour of the school explains why. Classrooms are large, comfortable and immaculate. Hallways are quiet.
Students wear maroon and gray uniforms, with neckties for the boys.
All Saints, the parents said, is an integral part of lives balanced as delicately as a coin standing on edge. Ms. Garvin, the parent who works at a nearby school, may have to look for a job near her home in White Plains if All Saints closes so that her daughter can attend public school. Or, Ms. Garvin said, she could enroll her daughter in private school near her parents' home in the Bronx. But she would prefer to keep her daughter at All Saints. Now they live farther uptown, in Inwood, but Ben, now in sixth grade, remains at All Saints.