Napaâs public school system has announced it may have to close another school campus to cope with falling enrollment and the resulting decrease in state financial support.
A budget update presented Thursday night to the Napa Valley Unified School District board includes the assumption that one junior high school will be closed starting in the 2022-23 academic year. Such a shutdown would save the district more than $1 million a year, at a time when NVUSD expects revenue from Californiaâs per-student funding system â which the state has currently locked in place due to disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic â to drop by $6 million while the number of local school-age children continues to decline, according to Rabinder (Rob) Mangewala, assistant superintendent for business services.