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2 Dayton schools to close at end of year
DAYTON — Two Dayton Public schools — Patterson-Kennedy PreK-8 School and Gorman School — will close at the end of this school year, district officials confirmed Friday morning.
The district also will restructure its preschool programs and will no longer offer Head Start. “We’re just continuing to close and consolidate older buildings that remain in our inventory but which are not scheduled to be rebuilt,” district spokeswoman Jill Moberley said.
The district estimates 80 positions would be reduced “but we expect to assign those positions,” which means no layoffs are planned at this time, Moberley said.
Dayton Education Association President David Romick said the plan would be to move those displaced employees into other open positions in the district based on seniority.
Romick called it an example of “the district and union working closely together to do what’s best for the district and taking care of employees at the same time.”
About 30 medically fragile students at Gorman School, 156 Grant St., along with four preschool units that operate in that building, and the entire staff will move into the district’s Preschool Academy building at 329 Abbey Ave.
At the Preschool Academy, current Title 1 Early Childhood Education students will move onto kindergarten. Students in the Early Childhood Inclusion Preschool program will attend preschool or kindergarten in another Dayton Public school, based on selection and availability, district officials said.
Students currently enrolled in a Head Start Program will move onto kindergarten, apply for another district preschool program, or enroll in a Head Start program offered through the Miami Valley Child Development Center.
Moberley said the district has notified and met with staff and parents whose schools or programs are affected and has placed an administrator at Patterson-Kennedy to assist parents with selecting another district school for their students.
About 120 students who will be in the seventh- and eighth-grade next year will attend the new Belmont High School that’s currently under construction, and students in the English Language Learners program would go to the new River’s Edge Montessori School that’s also being built, Moberley noted.
“The remaining students would be assigned to a school based on selection and availability,” she said.
Patterson-Kennedy, Gorman and the Preschool Academy are among the district’s older “legacy schools.”
The district last summer broke ground on its 26th and final school as part of the $627 million construction program, the largest in the region.
Twenty two have since opened and the last four will open next school year. In 2011-12, Fairview and Wright Brothers preK-8 schools will welcome students, along with River’s Edge and Belmont High School.
Comments
By Renee
April 21, 2011 11:44 AM | Link to this
My son went to Patterson-Kennedy and was in the hearing imparied class. I wonder what is going to happen to this much needed program?????
By C. Jean Henry
April 12, 2011 3:58 AM | Link to this
My daughter went to Gormon school during an extended stay at CMC in the late ‘80’s. There is still a need for a school near the hospital for our medically fragile children.