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Sierra Vista superintendent recommends closing at least two schools, including Joyce Clark Middle School
Summary
Superintendent Terry Romo told the governing board the district must cut about $5 million and recommended closing Joyce Clark Middle School as part of at least two closures; staff presented 1,183 cleaned survey responses and the board debated K–8 vs. middle-school models, staffing impacts and property-sale limits ahead of an April 21 vote.
Terry Romo, superintendent of the Sierra Vista Unified School District, told the governing board at a work session that the district must close a minimum of two schools next year to close an estimated $5 million budget shortfall and recommended Joyce Clark Middle School as one of the closures. "We have continued to lose students, lost more than 2,000 students, over 3,000 empty seats," Romo said.
Romo and district staff presented results from a public survey the district administered: staff member Miss Weller said the survey produced 1,414 submissions and, after removing duplicates and entries that could not be verified, the cleaned total was 1,183. "After removing all those duplicates, took the number down to 1,183," Miss Weller said while outlining how responses were broken down by elementary, middle and high school stakeholders.
Romo framed the recommendation around facility utilization, student counts and staffing.…
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