Boardman school board gets public input on possible middle-school realignment

BOARDMAN — Parents, teachers and community members got more insight at a school board workshop into a proposal to realign the school district’s middle-school students.

The school board likely will come to a decision in January regarding the proposal to regroup students by grade level.

Fifth- and sixth-grade students would move to Center Middle School, and seventh- and eighth-grade students would move to Glenwood Middle School. Currently, each building houses all four grade levels.

School district officials tonight highlighted a few of the benefits they believe realignment would bring to the district such as pooled resources that will be used more efficiently; a stronger sense of community, since Center and Glenwood would no longer be in competition; expanded music and art instruction; the ability of seventh- and eighth-graders to expand beyond the Common Core curriculum by adding elective courses that would become available; elimination of differences in opportunities that students might get based on what middle school they attend; and a more-equitable distribution of students.

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