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Greenfield Central board begins formal review of returning fourth graders to elementary schools
Summary
School leaders presented facility, enrollment and research materials and asked the board for guidance on whether to move fourth grade from the intermediate configuration back to K–5 elementary schools; board members asked for stakeholder input and said class sizes would be preserved.
Greenfield Central school officials told the board Feb. 10 they are pursuing further study and community input on whether to return fourth-grade students to elementary schools after more than a decade in an intermediate configuration. District staff said capacity exists in current elementary buildings and emphasized next steps will focus on gathering input from parents, teachers and administrators.
District staff presented enrollment history, a demographic study and instructional analyses showing Greenfield Central’s enrollment peaked in 2012 and has fallen modestly since, creating unused classroom capacity. The district’s facilities review, administrators said, shows many…
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