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Dr. Gangel said the high school currently has the smallest graduating class ever, but the seventh grade, which will enter the high school next year, will have between 80 and 90 students in it. He said there are also large classes in kindergarten, first, and fourth grades.
There are 59 seniors at the high school. The seventh grade has 86 students, kindergarten has 85, and first grade has 89.
“I’d like to have more classrooms now,” he said. “We’re not in a crisis, but it’s not ideal.”
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham noted that the county did not have a middle school in 1980 with 1,162 students.
“A new facility would be great, but you would be picking up maintenance and overhead that is redundant,” he said. He suggested that Dr. Gangel instead look at adding on to the elementary school.
At Tuesday night’s School Board meeting the board approved Dr. Gangel’s recommendation to appoint a committee to look at plans for expansion.
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