Big Changes are Coming to the Kindred School District

A consultant was hired to study the Kindred School district. On Tuesday evening, the results of the study were revealed to the community. They recommend BIG changes. Because of Kindred's location, the enrollment of the school should double or quadruple eventually. We should be ready by purchasing land for expansion. Unfortunately we missed the chance to buy land next to the present school so the new land will have to be located elsewhere. The study also recommends that Davenport school be closed.

The study says that we have three choices.

1. Continue what we're doing...... maintaining both the Davenport and Kindred schools but expect that we will have to purchase land for expansion eventually, most likely at a higher cost than it is right now.

2. Buy land. Sell the Davenport School. Build a new 6-12^th grade school and make the present Kindred School into a p-k-5^th grade school. Plan to eventually sell the Kindred School also and expand the new school to p-k-12. (the dividing line could either be 6^th or 7^th grade)

3. Buy land. Sell both schools and build a large p-k-12 school.

The study also says that the high school presently does not offer enough variety of classes to draw students into our district. Even if more subjects were offered, the building does not have enough room to teach them. It is also recommended that a person is hired just to be in charge of “coordination of curriculum, instruction, staff development, assessment and accountability.”

The study also says that Kindred school needs a new entrance. The administration offices are poorly located and both schools have poor security. The lunch room was labeled as “poorly situated for expansion, unappealing and marginal.”

The study is 120 pages long so obviously I have only mentioned a few of the points in the study.....but hopefully this helps you to understand what I meant when I said “BIG changes are coming to the Kindred School district!”