HIGH SCHOOL IN GRANTON AT LEAST ONE MORE YEAR
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 -- 10:30 AM
There will be high school in Granton for at least one more year.The Granton School Board announced at a special meeting last night that they decided to wait one year to pursue an arrangement by which they would send their high school students to another school.
That option, called Whole Grade Sharing, is a less drastic step than consolidation or dissolution, the other reorganizational options available to schools in Wisconsin. Under Whole Grade Sharing, Granton would pay a ?tuition? to another school to educate their high school students. The district would technically maintain a K-12 district and school board, but not have to fund a high school.
The other school would benefit by receiving a portion of the state aid associated with the high school students.
Granton and Neillsville held a joint school board meeting last week to discuss the possibility, but at a special meeting last night, the Granton school board announced they would not embark on Whole Grade Sharing next year. Instead, they will ask district residents which school they want Granton to pursue Whole Grade Sharing with for the 2012-13 school year.
The surveys will be sent to district residents in early May with results available by mid-May. The board hopes to have an agreement with another school by September so an assimilation plan can be implemented during the 2011-12 school year.
Granton?s enrollment fell from 422 in 1995-96 to 237 in the current school year.
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