Posted: June 16, 2009

The Muskego-Norway School Board has endorsed a plan to reduce the number of elementary schools, but how many schools and which ones would be closed has yet to be determined.

The board on Monday approved moving forward with four facility options: two that call for going from five elementary schools to four, and two that would reduce the number of elementary schools to three. The district will now seek public input on the plans.

The options are based on recommendations made by a citizen facilities study team asked to evaluate the elementary schools and Bay Lane Middle School.

The team suggested some schools might be replaced on existing district sites, but Superintendent Joe Schroeder has said the district has no immediate plans to do so.

One of the options envisions new or renovated elementary schools and the Bay Lane Middle School serving only grades 5 to 8. Another calls for Bay Lane/Country Meadows, which share a school building, being split into two elementary schools and for building or renovating two elementary schools. Then a new middle school would be built.

One option calling for three elementary schools includes building new or renovating existing elementary schools and renovating Bay Lane to serve only grades 5 to 8. The other three-elementary school option would make Bay Lane/Country Meadows into one elementary school, renovate two of the existing elementary schools and build a new middle school.

 

- Jane Ford-Stewart