This list has finally been released a couple weeks after the school superintendent missed a deadline to do so. There are 11 schools on the chopping block and if they are closed the district will save about $22 million per year.
The long-awaited list includes eight elementary schools, one K-8 and two high schools, as well as two other schools that were eligible for closure but instead would remain open to accept students coming from one of the shuttered sites, Superintendent Matt Wayne said. No middle schools were included.
The announcement offers the first specifics after a monthslong process to close city schools to address the 14,000 empty seats spread across the district’s 102 schools. The empty seats are due to two decades of declining enrollment, including the loss of 4,000 students in the past five years.
It seems the bottom line in the decision making was enrollment. Schools…
