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Middle school
recommended
by committee
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Superintendent David Gangel told the School Board Tuesday night the committee studying school expansion had unanimously recommended the school system build a 500-student middle school to include fifth through eighth grades.
He said the committee had also recommended that the system improve the two existing schools “to meet necessary specifications for educational usage.” Finally, he said the committee had recommended that the school system “develop a plan and research the feasibility of providing a vocational center” at the high school.
Dr. Gangel took the board through the same process the committee had been through, using data from housing starts, birth rates and enrollment trends that show that the elementary school will be at or above capacity by the 1994-95 school year.
He also provided information on the cost of using Piedmont Technical School for Vocational education and showed it is costing $209,000 per year, or about $3,350 per student in addition to the per-pupil cost for regular education of about $4,650.
A very rough estimate of the cost of providing vocational instruction locally would be $190,000 per year, he said. «
The School Board voted unanimously to accept the expansion committee’s recommendation and advertise and schedule a meeting to inform the public and hear public comments for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, 1992 in the high school auditorium.
Dr. Gangel pointed out that the county could not take advantage of a literary loan to finance the middle school. Literary loans are no lpnger available to school systems with local composite indices greater than .6. Rappahannock’s LCI for the coming year is .6990. He said instead, the county would have to use lpcal general
See SCHOOL BOARD, p. A-5
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