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C-BISD to realign Wild Peach Elementary
Published November 20, 2009
WEST COLUMBIA — Wild Peach Elementary students traditionally move on to Barrow Elementary after the fifth grade, but this year’s fifth-graders will stick around for another year.
The school will have room for the additional students after construction is finished on a gym and additional classrooms for science labs at Wild Peach, Superintendent Carol Bertholf said.
“The construction we have going should be finished by this year,” she said.
Columbia-Brazoria ISD trustees voted unanimously during their Tuesday meeting to realign the school to include prekindergarten through sixth grade for 2010-11.
Trustees also approved several renovation projects at various campuses.
The move will bring Wild Peach in line with the district’s other elementary schools, Barrow and West Columbia, which have prekindergarten through sixth grade.
Trustees voted to create a committee that includes Wild Peach Principal Margaret Meadows, the district’s nutrition director and other administrators to determine how to implement the realignment, Columbia-Brazoria ISD President Lynn Klement said.
There are 50 fifth-grade students at Wild Peach and seven students who already have been placed at Barrow Elementary who could be affected by the realignment, Klement said. The realignment also would require two teachers to be moved, changes in bus routes and other services, he said.
“There are some logistics to make it work,” he said. “We have to rearrange things.”
The school district approved about $750,000 in tax notes to build a physical education building and additional classroom space at the school to accommodate sixth-grade students.
The district sought a different funding mechanism to make improvements at Wild Peach Elementary after voters denied two bond issues in the past two years for those improvements. The physical education building was one of the needed improvements, officials have said.
Trustees also approved Tuesday an additional $51,000 for the Wild Peach construction which will come from the district’s reserve fund. The funds were approved along with other projects that include $47,000 to help pay for the high school auditorium renovations, $26,000 to repair the track a Griggs Field and $15,600 to repair the high school auxiliary gym.
John Tompkins is senior reporter for The Facts. Contact him at 979-849-8581.
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