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.