Trustees of the Napa public school system are expected to begin debating possible closures or realignment of local middle schools next week, and are scheduled to vote on a plan April 22.
Napa Valley Unified School District officials announced the upcoming decisions Tuesday night, during the last of six meetings by a 50-person committee tasked with weighing various plans for shutting down or combining campuses before the 2022-23 school year.
A decision could affect any of the four campuses within Napa city limits serving students from the sixth through eighth grades, at a time when NVUSD leadership is forecasting a steady fall-off in per-student state funding as enrollment declines amid steep Bay Area housing costs.
A selling point to commissioners â about 90% of the visitors arrive by bus or shuttle.
âI think itâs also important to acknowledge thatâs a business model we donât see a lot,â Commissioner Anne Cottrell said. âAnd it really helps address traffic issues in the valley.â
Madonna winery is located on 4.4 acres at 5400 Old Sonoma Road. It is along Highway 12, the main road linking southern Napa County with southern Sonoma County.
âI can assure you we will do our best to make the valley proud as the second-oldest wine-making family still producing wine today in the Napa Valley,â Taylor Bartolucci of the winery told commissioners.
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Pushback by parents concerned about the possible closure of Harvest Middle School â and about reducing access for disadvantaged and minority students â is leading advisers to the Napa school district to look at other ways of shrinking the footprint of a public school system pressured by falling attendance.
The task force charged with helping the Napa Valley Unified School District adjust its budget to a contracting student body is turning its attention to a host of options that would shutter one of four middle schools in the city of Napa before the 2022-23 academic year but keep open Harvest on Old Sonoma Road, which hosts a dual English-Spanish curriculum and a student body more than three-quarters Latino.