Middle school faces squeeze; Growth prompts board to review space options

  • By January Wetzel
  • First Posted: February 13, 2013 - 11:07 pm
    Last Updated: February 13, 2013 - 11:08 pm

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Renovating the former Sunshine School on property south of Seymour-Redding Elementary School is one idea to help handle the two-year enrollment bump projected at Seymour Middle School. PHOTO BY AARON PIPER


Growing pains again are being felt at Seymour Middle School.

With an additional 70 students projected at the seventh- and eighth-grade building next school year, administrators are taking steps now to ensure there is enough classroom space available this fall.

According to corporation projections, enrollment will jump from 594 students this year to 662 in 2013-14 and to 715 in 2014-15 before dropping the following two years.

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