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Campaign to save Catholic Girls' school in Ventura County falls at final hurdle

A new site in Moorpark for La Reina Academy was in escrow
Caroline Feraday
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KCLU
A new site in Moorpark for La Reina Academy is in escrow

Despite a million-dollar campaign by parents and alumni to save La Reina school in Thousand Oaks, they've announced they won’t be able to proceed with opening at a new location.

La Reina Academy had found a new site in Moorpark and entered escrow, after the closure of La Reina school in Thousand Oaks was announced.

However, they announced on Monday that enrollment targets haven’t been met and the proposed new academy school won’t be going ahead.

La Reina Academy wrote on their Instagram feed on Monday that there would be "a massive financial gap" after not reaching their anticipated enrollment targets.

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 11 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity and Use of Sound.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for twelve years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.