Sixth-graders are better suited for middle schools, Gehrens previously has said. The limited modifications needed to accommodate sixth-graders will cost about $50,000, said business manager Joshua Sweigard. Instead, existing rooms will be repurposed into sixth-grade classrooms." However, sixth-graders have been kept at the elementary schools because district officials felt extensive renovations were needed at the middle schools to handle the extra grade.īut Gehrens said before Monday night's meeting the district has found a way to "transition sixth-graders into the middle schools without full-fledged renovation projects. School district Superintendent Melanie Gehrens said the plan always has been for the three new elementary schools to accommodate kindergarten through fifth grade. The middle schools then will house sixth through eighth grades. Roosevelt Middle schools when school starts in late August. The change means that current fifth- and sixth-graders will move out of the elementary schools and report to either Neil A. The Bristol Township school board voted at its Monday night meeting to move the sixth grade into the school district's two middle schools starting next school year.
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