The All Saints’ campus in Vicksburg is under serious consideration for purchase by at least two groups, the bishop of the Mississippi Diocese said Friday.

Proposals from the two groups, which were not identified, are in varying stages of negotiations with the board of the former Episcopal day and boarding school.

Bishop Duncan M. Gray III is chairman of the school’s board, which will make a decision.

The school, which did not reopen for classes this fall, is owned by the dioceses of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Western Louisiana.

&#8220We will be looking at these serious offers and weighing them and negotiating,” Gray said, adding that the board has designated the owning dioceses’ bishops as the main negotiators.

Gray said the school’s board has said it hopes the campus &#8220could be used for purposes consistent with Bishop (Theodore DuBose) Bratton’s vision of the land.”

Bratton helped establish the school, as All Saints’ Junior College, in 1908.

&#8220We want it to be used by someone for a purpose not inconsistent with Christian ministry,” Gray said.

Some of the options the board has considered are school-related and others aren’t, Gray said.

The school finished last school year as a coed boarding and day school for students in the seventh to 12th grades with an enrollment of 124.

Its campus is on 40 acres on Confederate Avenue with nine buildings – a main administrative and classroom building, including the school’s dining hall, five dormitories, Bratton Memorial Chapel, the head-of-school’s home and the gym. The school’s other facilities include two soccer fields, tennis courts and a competition-size swimming pool and student pavilion.

During the five years before the May announcement there would be no classes this fall, alumni and supporters of the school had rallied to raise funds and enrollment. The number of students doubled. That delayed closure, but, ultimately, didn’t avoid it.

Trustees expressed hope at the time that a way could be found for the school to be reopened.