Rice High School (Manhattan)
[1] Named for Irish missionary and educator Edmund Rice,[2] it was located at 124th Street and Lenox Avenue and was known as a basketball powerhouse producing alumni that included Kemba Walker.[3] The school's basketball team won the CHSAA championship in 1994 with a roster that included Felipe López.Amid declining enrollment, reduced endowment and increasing operational costs, the school made the decision to close in 2011 after they could not raise the needed funds to move to a cheaper building.[2][1] It held its final graduation ceremony on May 27, 2011 and vacated the building on June 30 of that same year.[3][5] As of August 2021, a group of alumni are working to reopen the school, although there is no clear timeline for this.