Exclusive | How NYC teens saved the last prom at closing Catholic school after tickets became too costly for students

These teens are saving the last dance.While other seniors around the city spent the last two weeks dress shopping and going to tux fittings, three All Hallows High School seniors were focused on saving their class’s very last prom.The Catholic school’s end-of-the-year gala was nearly canceled because most of the graduating class couldn’t afford the $220 ticket.But Ethan Amaya didn’t want to see his classmates at the Bronx Catholic school — which sits a long fly ball from Yankee Stadium — fail to experience this rite of passage, so he stepped up to the plate and took a swing at raising the cash to help the dance go on.And, thanks to rapid organizing, Amaya and his friends were able to lower the costs to a point where the shindig has been saved — and just in time, as the school is slated to be closed next month and this will be the school’s last graduating class.“This whole year has been very hard for everybody and it’s just very important that we have this.I feel like we should have something special, a night to look back on,” Amaya, 18, told The Post.“I want all of us to experience prom as a senior class, because we came into the school as a senior class, and I want us to leave the school as a senior class.

I want to still be together, spend the night not having a worry.”Students earlier this month were delivered the heartbreaking news that their prom was likely off because only 30 students had bought prom tickets — which was below the 40-person minimum needed to reserve the venue.There are 82 students in the senior class.The news was heartbreaking to the community, which had only learned just a few months earlier that the 115-year-old Catholic school was one of nearly a dozen in the city that would permanently shutter its doors this June, thanks to skyrocketing tuition and plummeting enrollment.“I was devastated, because I was really happy to be there for my 12th-grade year, but then I realized it was closing … This school has beco...