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Superintendent, commenters press reuse of former Everett High School to ease K–8 overcrowding
Summary
Speakers at the Everett School Committee meeting urged converting the old Everett High School into a 7–8 middle school to relieve overcrowding in K–8 schools; Superintendent Bill Hart said the City Council recently approved $500,000 for design work toward that reuse.
Commenters and district leaders told the Everett School Committee on April 29 that overcrowding in K–8 schools is forcing instructional uses into stairwells, hallways and former library spaces and that converting the former Everett High School into a dedicated seventh–eighth grade building would immediately relieve pressure across the district.
The superintendent said the City Council took a first fiscal step this week by approving $500,000 from the capital improvement stabilization fund to pay for design services and related costs to study reuse of the former high school on Broadway.
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