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Consultants present attendance-zone scenarios and capacity data; no closures decided
Summary
ITRI/ORED presented enrollment forecasts and elementary/middle-school redistricting scenarios, including possible closure of Barton; board members pressed consultants on capacity assumptions from the 2019 facility study, requested permit dates and cost-savings estimates, and no formal closure decision was made.
ITRI/ORED planners presented a land‑use and enrollment analysis to the Craven County Board of Education, showing 39 pending developments that could add more than 4,000 housing units and a 10‑year membership forecast that projects modest declines in most grade levels. Thomas Dudley, a school planner with ITRI, said the study produced two elementary redistricting scenarios tied to the potential closure of Barton (transcript label: "Grama Barton"). The first scenario would reassign parts of Barton’s attendance zone to Havelock and Edwards, using U.S. 70 as a natural boundary; a second, wider scenario would include Brinson to unlock additional capacity and provide more flexibility.
Dudley and Matthew Palmer (director of School Camp, an NC State planning…
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