The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ board of education voted 4-to-3 on Thursday to study the impacts of closing Ephesus, Seawell, or Glenwood elementary schools. Based on that study, they’ll later choose which schools to close, and the closures would happen in fall 2027 at the earliest.
Two more schools, Frank Porter Graham and Estes Hills, had also been floated for consideration at the previous two school board meetings. On Thursday, board members chose not to include them in the study because the board had voted last year to rebuild those schools with funds from a local bond referendum approved by voters.
“I think we as a board need to be data driven, but we also need to be decisive,” said board member Barbara Fedders, who introduced the motion to study only three schools for closure…