Four Miami-Dade public schools are facing closure and consolidation at next week’s school board meeting.
According to the agenda for the board’s June 17 meeting, those schools include Lenora B. Smith Elementary in Liberty City, Miami Springs Middle, Pine Villa Elementary in Goulds and Richmond Heights Middle in South Miami-Dade.
The decision will come at a time when the district is navigating both decreasing enrollment and decreasing funding. The number of students attending public schools in Miami-Dade dropped about 13,000, or 4%, this past school year; the district’s budget, still more than $7 billion, for the 2025-2026 school year, ended up about $189 million less than the prior year…