BPS officers are recommending the closure of 4 faculties, together with a slate of faculty reconfigurations, by the top of the 2025-26 yr – ramping up a long-awaited amenities overhaul set to unfold throughout the district.
“Today is an important step forward in our long term facilities plan, one that, as the mayor indicated, we’ve been planning for and developing programmatically and with a set of very powerful, transformative tools for the last several years,” BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper stated Tuesday morning. “What we’re proposing, and I will share today, are for the district’s physical footprint come the end of 25-26 school year.”
The closure, merger and reconfiguration suggestions can be offered to the Boston College Committee for approval on the Jan. 22 assembly.
Dever Elementary College in Dorchester, Excel Excessive College in South Boston, the highschool portion of Mary Lyon Pilot in Brighton, and Group Academy in Jamaica Plain would all be closed beneath the district’s proposal. Group Academy can be closed as a degree-granting faculty however redesigned in its place service middle for college kids.
The district can be recommending the mergers and reconfigurations of a number of faculties. Winthrop and Clap Elementary Faculties can be mixed and relocated to the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Center College constructing in Dorchester, which is slated to shut on the finish of this faculty yr.
Beneath the proposal, the Younger Achievers Science and Math Pilot College, BTU Pilot College, and Mary Lyon decrease faculty would all transition into grades pre-Ok by 6 faculties. The Dearborn STEM Academy can be reconfigured right into a grades 7 by 12 faculty.
BPS officers may also current a “road map for long term projections” to the college committee on Jan. 22, detailing a 5-year projection to 2030 of what the bodily areas the district might want to alter to enrollment projections.
“When you take into account what has already either been closed, merged, consolidated – the current proposals that are on the table and what is to come – we would be looking forward to 2030,” Skipper stated, “at the elementary level approximately five to seven additional schools, and at the high school level an additional three to seven schools.”
Skipper and Mayor Michelle Wu stated group suggestions can be included and valued as plans transfer ahead.
The present proposals come one yr after the district put forth a “long-term facilities plan” suggesting a framework for college closures as BPS catches as much as long-neglected ageing amenities and a drop in enrollment during the last decade.
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