The bell won’t ring again at Riverside’s St. Francis de Sales School.

Parents learned in April that the school would close in June but some mounted a fundraising effort — and a proposal they believed could keep the 107-year-old Catholic school open .

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Kids went to school Friday, June 6, not knowing if it would be the last day of the year or the last day ever on the downtown campus off Lime Street.

Then hopeful parents received a letter after school Friday from the church pastor announcing the “painful” decision that their proposal would not be accepted.

Classes at St. Francis — one of the city’s oldest schools — were over.

“I appreciate the efforts and heartfelt support of the parent group,” wrote the Rev. Alvaro Pal

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