Pine Bluff Superintendent May Close Schools
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Pine Bluff superintendent says his
school district needs to consider eliminating a couple of schools
next year.
Superintendent Frank Anthony and the school board have come up
with four possibilities for dropping schools or consolidating
grades.
The first model would reduce the district`s six elementary
schools and five magnet elementary schools to five
kindergarten-through-fourth-grade schools, two middle schools, one
junior high and one high school.
The second model would have one elementary school with seven
grades in addition to a junior high school and a four-grade high
school.
Other school officials suggest returning to the district`s
neighborhood school model.
The district now has three elementary schools with fewer than
200 students, and most of the buildings are more than 50 years old.
Closing one school could save the district $100,000.
