HOUSTON -- Parents and alumni at a northeast Houston catholic school Tuesday protested the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston's decision to shut down their school, KPRC Local 2, Your Education Station, reported.

Earlier this year, the archdiocese decided to close Holy Name, St. Charles Borromeo, Our Mother Of Mercy and St. Philip Neri schools.

"I just feel like they're going to lose so much," said Joann Oldham.

Oldham said her children get more than an education at Holy Name.

"We feel like we're being evicted," she said. "That we're losing our home here at Holy Name."

The archdiocese used an 18-month study from an outside consulting group to make its decision to close the schools.

"These decisions were not made sheerly financially, although that sheerly was involved," Archbishop Daniel DiNardo said. "They were also made in terms of some demographics, some strengthening of some schools by consolidation."

Parents said the results of the study are misleading.

"The misrepresentations of the Meitler Group is just a smoking gun -- a wrecking ball," parent Lawrence Rodriguez said.

The report cited declining enrollment and rundown facilities.

"The truth of the matter is enrollment has increased by 5.5 percent this school year," Rodriguez said.

The parents said the building that houses Holy Name is old, but it has passed building inspections. It was also a shelter during Hurricane Ike.

Holy Name is slated to close May 28, but parents said they will fight until the end.

"When we heard the news we didn't split up and say, 'Well, let's keep in touch,'" Oldham said. "We said, 'You know what, this is more than that. This is more than that.' I think it's worth the fight."