Will Harvest Middle School shut down in 2022, or will another Napa school close its doors instead? And where will Napa children receiving dual English-Spanish instruction go to class?
Leaders and advisers with the Napa Valley Unified School District this week have started grappling with those possibilities as the district laid out alternatives for boiling down its footprint, amid excess classroom capacity and an attendance decline that is expected to worsen budget woes during the decade.
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On Tuesday, a 50-member task force of teachers, administrators and parents started to weigh one plan that would eliminate one of the city of Napaâs four campuses for students in grades 6 to 8 starting with the 2022-23 academic year, against an alternative that would shut Harvest Middle School along with one elementary campus â but also channel hundreds of
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The city of Napaâs various areas will fall into one of five categories of land uses, according to the latest draft of the general plan intended to guide the next two decades of development.
Consultants advising Napa on its next general plan, intended to govern zoning and land use through about 2040, on Thursday outlined a set of designations for residential, commercial and industrial development across the city, as well as open spaces and mixed-use projects like the Napa Pipe community intended to take over the former Kaiser industrial site in the south of town.
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As a task force of schoolteachers, parents and others ponders closing one of Napaâs middle schools amid falling attendance and state funding, a survey of campuses illustrates sometimes sharp differences in their demographics and communities â including for the junior high school briefly targeted for a possible shutdown last fall.
While the Napa Valley Unified School District has an overall glut of hundreds of student spaces, it also faces an imbalance between its recently rebuilt â but difficult to expand â River Middle School in the north, and three-decades-old campuses serving largely lower-income and minority families elsewhere in Napa, according to a study shared with NVUSDâs Middle School Redesign Task Force last week.
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