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Monday, January 12, 2009
What are the impacts of closing Clark Middle School?
In today’s paper I outlined the potential impacts of Springfield City School’s plan to close Clark Middle School.
The district is holding a forum this Wednesday (6 p.m. at Clark Middle School) to gather public input.
The conversation to close Clark is pretty much completely financially driven, with officials looking to cut about $1.4 to $1.9 million from the budget next year.
I’m posting the glancebox that ran on C2 of today’s paper - the nitty-gritty details of all the changes under consideration - after the jump for anyone who didn’t see it.
Are you concerned with anything in the plan or do you think it’s a good idea?
Public meeting
A public meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Clark Middle School will discuss Springfield schools’ proposal to close Clark Middle School.
• Clark would close as a middle school.
• Administrative departments will move out of South High School. Some central office departments will move to Clark, with special education departments moving to Keifer Alternative Center and business departments moving to the service center on East Home Road.
• The bus depot will move from South High School to the Clark Middle School site.
For the 2009-10 school year, will your child be in:
Preschool program at a Springfield City Schools building?
• Prekindergarten programs of all types will be moved to Clark Middle School to create a preschool center.
• Head Start programs at Fulton and Kenwood elementary schools will move to the Clark Preschool Center.
• Preschool special education units at Snyder Park, Kenwood, Perrin Woods, Lincoln, Horace Mann, Snowhill and Simon Kenton elementary schools to Clark Middle School.
Elementary school?
• Approximately 30 students who attend Lagonda Elementary school under the voluntary transfer program will return to their home schools.
• Attendance lines will be redrawn at Lagonda Elementary school, affecting about 80 students.
• Move the Lagonda Elementary south boundary line that currently runs along Lagonda Avenue north to McCreight Avenue then create an imaginary southern boundary line extending diagonally south to U.S. 40 East. Those students will attend Warder-Park/Wayne.
• Re-assign students living on Second Street and north to Kenton Elementary.
• Re-assign students living on North Limestone Street north to Harding Road to Kenton Elementary.
Sixth grade?
• Sixth-grade students would remain at their elementary schools.
• Sixth-grade students at Lagonda could be affected by the boundary changes.
Seventh and eighth grade?
• Seventh- and eighth-graders would attend the middle schools.
• Seventh- and eighth-grade students who would have attended Clark Middle School will attend another middle school based on two attendance areas:
• Students south of High Street will attend Hayward Middle School.
• Students living on and north of High Street will attend Roosevelt Middle School.
Gifted Students?
• Gifted students will move out of Snowhill Elementary School to make room for sixth-grade classrooms.
• The relocation for the gifted program is undetermined, Clark Middle School is one possibility.
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