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Nibley Park principal, staff and board discuss converting K–8 seventh and eighth grades amid equity and program concerns
Summary
Principal Kesley Green and area staff presented the history and challenges of Nibley Park's K–8 seventh/eighth grade program and asked the board whether to pursue reconfiguration under the current G5 policy or the proposed revised G5 process; the board directed Superintendent Grant to proceed with public engagement under the proposed process.
Salt Lake City School District staff and Nibley Park leadership briefed the board on March 4 about the challenges of sustaining a small seventh- and eighth-grade program inside the district’s K–8 configuration and sought direction about whether to advance a grade-reconfiguration under the current G5 policy or the proposed revised G5 procedures.
Principal Kesley Green and area director Dallin Miller said Nibley Park’s seventh-and-eighth-grade program was established in 2007 with a vision of a robust middle-grade program; that vision never reached the target enrollment (the school was designed for a…
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