Danville board narrows long-range facilities choices, leans toward two-campus plan; no formal vote

The Danville Area School District School Board spent much of its Aug. 6 committee meeting reviewing long-range building options and discussing next steps, and members signaled a preference for a plan that would consolidate secondary grades on a single campus while keeping elementary grades on another campus. No formal motion or vote was taken.

Board discussion focused on four principal scenarios developed in an Alloy5 facilities study: (a) limited infrastructure repairs at the four current buildings; (b) targeted renovation of the middle school plus infrastructure work; (c) grade re‑alignment that would convert the primary and Liberty Valley buildings into new elementary/upper‑elementary roles and move grades 7–8 into the high school; and (d) a two‑campus model with a consolidated secondary campus (6–12) and an elementary campus (K–5) using available land at Liberty Valley. A previously discussed option (e) to place all students on a single campus — estimated in the study at roughly $123 million — was deemed beyond the district’s borrowing…