Cramer Elementary, Sharp Elementary, and Wiggins College Preparatory Lab School will be shut down.
Superintendent Katrina McCombs said when an extra $13 million was secured from the state, Yorkship Family School was a priority to save. About 85% of their seats are filled. It s because they are the only school in that neighborhood, said McCombs on Friday.
She says about 1,000 students will be affected by the three closures, and all students will be bussed to their new school, regardless of distance.
Photos provided by the district show examples of the disrepair in the old buildings. McCombs also says the increasing number of charter and renaissance schools in the city has cut into public school enrollment.