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Board reviews draft educational specifications for proposed consolidated Wallingford high school
Summary
Consultants presented 90+ pages of draft educational specifications for a potential single Wallingford high school, laying out space programs (with and without a natatorium), state reimbursement implications and a proposed public-feedback and grant timeline.
Consultants hired by the Wallingford School District presented draft educational specifications for a proposed single, consolidated high school at the Dec. 16 board meeting, detailing program needs, space counts and reimbursement implications under state building rules.
Superintendent Belizzi introduced the consultants and said the board previously voted in January 2023 to pursue consolidation; she described the materials as "just a draft document" that will be posted and opened to public comment. Kemp Moorhart of the SLAM Collaborative and Kristen Fertak, also of SLAM, walked the board through department-by-department inventories — administration, special education, CTE pathways, science labs, library/media, visual and performing arts, and athletics — and a graphic-based “chiclet” layout that shows relative space sizes for each room type.
The consultants presented two program scenarios: one that includes an indoor natatorium (pool)…
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