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Granite School District outlines yearlong study of elementary consolidations as enrollment falls
Summary
District planning staff said Granite is projecting about a 1,000‑student drop annually and laid out a yearlong process to identify elementary schools for possible consolidation, citing funding pressures, split‑grade classrooms and program preservation concerns.
Steve Hogan, director of planning for Granite School District, told a community meeting that the district will spend roughly a year studying potential elementary school consolidations as enrollment declines "approximately a thousand students a year." Hogan said the study will focus on elementary schools and will not include wholesale closures of junior high or high schools.
The study matters because the district projects continuing declines in elementary enrollment that, according to Hogan, reduce economies of scale and can force schools into split‑grade classrooms and make some programs financially unsustainable. "We are not considering closing junior highs and high schools currently," Hogan said, and added that most boundary and grade‑configuration changes would be a byproduct of elementary‑level changes.
Hogan described the district's data inputs, including a Facility Condition Index completed about eight years ago…
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