New Stanley Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas, will remain open for now after community members objected to a proposal to close it and send students to a brand new, larger elementary school.
Takeaways
- Closing New Stanley Elementary School is no longer part of a school boundary adjustment plan that the Kansas City, Kansas, school board approved at its December meeting.
- The plan still calls for changing feeder patterns and boundaries for some schools and replacing several buildings.
- A board member said the decision to leave New Stanley open isn’t necessarily permanent, but more people need to be a part of the conversation.
During its Dec. 9 meeting, the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools board approved a plan to adjust school boundaries and incorporate new buildings into the district. But the plan looked different from the draft presented to the board in November.
Instead of closing New Stanley, a small neighborhood school of about 250 students that offers a Spanish-English dual language program, the district will leave the school open with its current attendance boundaries.
Compared to the earlier draft, the latest version of the plan also changes how the feeder patterns for several schools will work…