WESTBOROUGH — Since the new Annie E. Fales Elementary School building was completed in 2021, it had remained the lowest-enrolled K-3 school in Westborough. The school had the most available space in the district at about 60 percent utilization.
The School Committee and district worked together with Dillinger Research and Applied Data to devise a plan to redistrict the town’s three K-3 elementary schools to better utilize space at Fales, promote long-term enrollment stability and equitable class sizes in each school, and help create similar student experiences across the district.
The effort, which started in October, finally concluded at the School Committee’s Feb. 25 meeting, where members unanimously agreed to Dillinger’s recommendation to implement what has come to be known as “Scenario 8.” The scenario had been unanimously endorsed by the schools’ principals…