The Intermediate School and Community Education buildings are still on schedule, and a renovation and addition for the administrative building remains in the planning stages.
A school for 700 students in grades three through five is under construction on the west edge of Worthington, set to relieve the pressure of a growing student body on Prairie Elementary and Worthington Middle School.
A school for 700 students in grades three through five is under construction on the west edge of Worthington, set to relieve the pressure of a growing student body on Prairie Elementary and Worthington Middle School.
District 518 has a number of building and facilities improvement projects in progress, including its new intermediate school and a community education building.
School board to weigh busing options
Whether or not to continue no-bus zones and add a route to the YMCA is up for debate leading up to a request for bids. Written By: Leah Ward | ×
District 518 s administration building in Worthington.
WORTHINGTON As District 518 s busing contract reaches an end, board members will need to decide whether to write a new contract including no-bus zones and consider adding activity routes before requesting new transportation bids.
The school board operations committee made up of board members Joel Lorenz, Mike Harberts and Steve Schneider spent about 30 minutes Tuesday discussing the complex logistics. Dave Skog, the district s director of business management, explained that Bud s Bus Service, the district s current contractor, has consistently asked for no-bus zones due to a shortage of bus drivers. The board implemented them this school year in an effort to reduce the number of kids on each bus during the COV