The former school building on the St. Rita Catholic Church campus in West Allis, which celebrated its last Mass in late November, has been sold to a private Christian school for $3.5 million.
The buyer, the Milwaukee-based Academy of Excellence, accepts tax-funded tuition vouchers through Wisconsin’s school choice programs, which allow students from lower-income families to attend private schools for free. Academy of Excellence is by far the state’s largest recipient of taxpayer dollars through choice programs, taking in $50.2 million for the current school year, state records show.
The Dec. 3 sale of the St. Rita school building, at 6021 W. Lincoln Ave., was made public through online deed records. It’s a five-story building with about 60,000 square feet of space. That includes a basement chapel and two upper floors previously used as a convent for the Catholic sisters who worked at St. Rita.