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“We are very vulnerable to being overrun by numbers,” said Dr. Gangel, noting that a change in the county’s zoning laws or a sudden influx of people could result very quickly in an overburdened and overcrowded elementary school.
It is possible to expand the elementary school by adding a middle school wing for sixth, seventh and eighth grades which would essentially be a “school within a school,” the.superintendent said. “That makes the most sense from a cost standpoint,” he acknowledged, adding that it could then be possible to use some existing facilities, such as cafeteria and septic systems. But that would swell the enrollment at RCES to over 1,000 and would “radically change the character of the schools we have in Rappahannock County,” Dr. Gangel said.
The excellent relationships which now exist between teachers, administrators and students are possible only because the county’s schools are so small, he told the planners. “My preference is a separate middle school,” the superintendent added, giving a “very rough estimate” of $3.5 million for such a capital expansion.
In addition to planning for enrollment growth, any assessment of school needs must take into account the fact that sections of the high school built in 1956 “are going to be obsolete in another 10 or 15 years,” maintained Commissioner Werner Krebser.
See NEEDS, p. 16
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