The Cumberland County Board of Education will look at middle school options at the upcoming March 26 board meeting.
The BOE members requested Director of Transportation Kathleen Martin to research and develop alternative bus routes for the middle school options during the school board’s middle school committee meeting.
Martin’s finding are as follows:
If Frank P. Brown Elementary was the middle school, four routes would need to be moved to South Cumberland Elementary, two routes would need to be moved to Glenn Martin Elementary and one route would need to be moved to Homestead Elementary.If Crab Orchard Elementary was the middle school, four routes would need to be moved to Stone Elementary and three routes would need to be moved to Homestead Elementary.If Homestead Elementary was the middle school, three routes would need to be changed to Crab Orchard Elementary, two routes would need to be changed to Stone Elementary and three routes would need to be moved to Glenn Martin Elementary.If Glenn Martin Elementary was the middle school, two routes would need to be moved to Pleasant Hill Elementary and two would need to move to South Cumberland Elementary.If North Cumberland Elementary was the middle school, two routes would need to be moved to Pleasant Hill Elementary and four routes would need to be moved to Stone Elementary.If Pine View Elementary was the middle school, two routes would need to be moved to Crab Orchard Elementary.If Pleasant Hill Elementary was the middle school, four routes would need to be moved to North Cumberland Elementary, five routes would need to be moved to Glenn Martin Elementary.If South Cumberland Elementary was the middle school, two routes would need to be moved to Glenn Martin Elementary, one route would need to be moved to Pleasant Hill Elementary and two routes would need to be moved to Frank P. Brown Elementary.If Stone Elementary was the middle school, three routes would need to be moved to Crab Orchard Elementary and three routes would need to be moved to North Cumberland Elementary.
Martin’s additional request is to hold all of the CDC classes in one school to reduce the drivers transferring students from one bus to another to get to the designated school.
Martin’s research resulted in 16 pages of route options from the origin of the nine elementary schools to a designated “middle school,” the time spent on the bus and the miles driven.
Martin also provided a list of students that would be displaced. According to Martin, displaced means these are the remaining elementary students who would need to be moved to a different elementary school if their existing school is turned into a middle school.
These are the students who would be displaced if this school was used as the middle school:
Frank P. Brown Elementary, 341 students.Crab Orchard Elementary, 257 students.Homestead Elementary, 395 students.Glenn Martin Elementary, 407 students.North Cumberland Elementary, 299 students.Pine View Elementary, 112 students.Pleasant Hill Elementary, 345 students.South Cumberland Elementary, 344 students.Stone Elementary, 356 students.
The middle school committee narrowed all of the middle school options down to four. Of the remaining four, one is to use two existing elementary schools. Since the school board is considering all four options, it will conduct research on all areas concerned with making the change to implement middle schools in the county.
To view the complete agenda, visit https://meeting.boeconnect.net/Public/Agenda/536?meeting=736147.
To share a public comment at the full board meeting March 26, there will be a sign-up sheet outside of the board room. Comments are limited to three minutes. All public comments must adhere to board policy 1.404.
The Cumberland County Board of Education is scheduled to meet March 26 at 6 p.m. in the Central Services building at 368 Fourth St. in Crossville.