The list of neighborhood schools that may shutter includes Bear Valley, Tudor and Baxter elementary. The school board must approve any closures.
Tudor Elementary School is among the seven schools Anchorage School District officials are recommending to close. Photographed Nov. 1, 2024.
The district will soon start taking public feedback on its proposal, and the Anchorage School Board must ultimately approve the school closures. Bear Valley and Wonder Park are slated for permanent closure, while Lake Hood, Fire Lake and Baxter would be repurposed as charter schools. Tudor and Nunaka Valley would be repurposed for special programs. There are nearly 1,400 students attending the seven schools, and most of the buildings are well under their full capacity, according to the district.
“The choices are being made more by math,” he said. “It’s not just somebody’s feeling or somebody looking at it, they really have looked carefully at what will do the least disruption to kids and then trying to keep going forward from there, to give them the best education they can.”
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