OUR K-12 SCHOOL DISAPPEARS NEXT FALL

The Decatur Daily paper has an interesting article today on the changes coming to our school. 

Beginning this fall, K-12 schools — a rare vestige of small, rural school systems — will come to an end in Limestone County. With approval already granted by the state Department of Education, Limestone County Schools will break off elementary students from Elkmont, Tanner and West Limestone K-12 schools beginning with the new school year.

The K-12 schools, known as unit schools in education circles, are the last of their type in the Limestone County Schools system. The change will create separate elementary schools for the purpose of state funding, providing state education dollars for each elementary school to have its own principal and other key staffers.

Elkmont School Principal Bill Tribble acknowledged that running one of the county’s unit schools can be a strain. “There’s only so much time in a day,” he said, noting that elementary students use a different set of achievement tests than do students in grades 6-12.

For now, Elkmont's elementary students will remain on the same campus. At Tanner, a separate office suite is in the works for the elementary principal and staff. At Elkmont, plans to build an off-site elementary school are still years away.  

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To divide the school, Elkmont Elementary School will be established with its own administration and identity. The elementary building has its own wing  and has its own administrative suite already, but there will be some “investment” made into the Elkmont Elementary campus, Limestone Superintendent Thomas Sisk said.  

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