Looking more and more likely that N. Carroll will close

[beall02]

Board of Education held a meeting this evening in which they decided that they will recommend that three Carroll County Schools close their doors including North Carroll High School. According to them, it is a combination of several factors including trying to recover a negative operating budget (save the school system money), a decline in the enrollment over the past decade, and the decline in the economy which supposedly has prevented the area from growing like it originally was thought to do.

They will combine North Carroll with Manchester Valley and rename the school.

I am sure that the area may not be growing as fast as they thought it would, basically making the build of Manchester Valley a mistake, but I think it has to do more with saving the system money. I only hope they don't do it now just to save money and then have to reopen it or build a new one a couple years down the road.

 

[LHSlancerFAN]

I don't think the people of northern Carroll County were very happy about MV being built in the first place. Is either school large enough to hold both student bodies? North Carroll at one point was 4A so I assume the building could accommodate it but I highly doubt that MV was built for a capacity that large.

 

[real world]

Sounds like allegany county.."build a building in the fort hill oval. Keep memorial property for parking. Send lavale to MR.

 

[eaglesinsider]

I don't think the people of northern Carroll County were very happy about MV being built in the first place. Is either school large enough to hold both student bodies? North Carroll at one point was 4A so I assume the building could accommodate it but I highly doubt that MV was built for a capacity that large.

Man Valley was built to hold a 3A population, which is what a combined NC-MV would be. Also, some students currently at NC will be redistricted to Westminster as part of a county-wide redistricting.

Carroll has been a few hundred students a year since 2005 and the enrollment is projected to drop steadily through at least 2024.

The residents of Northern Carroll County were the ones who pushed for Man Valley to be built even when the state wouldn't give any money for the school to be built because the enrollment projections showed that exactly this would happen. Carroll built a $52 million dollar school without a cent of state funding.

It will be interesting to see if the move the combined NC-MV to 3A for the next redistricting since that would leave the 1A South with 6 schools for football.

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/local/ph-cc-superintendent-recommendation-20151111-story.html

 

[LHSlancerFAN]

Man Valley was built to hold a 3A population, which is what a combined NC-MV would be. Also, some students currently at NC will be redistricted to Westminster as part of a county-wide redistricting.

Carroll has been a few hundred students a year since 2005 and the enrollment is projected to drop steadily through at least 2024.

The residents of Northern Carroll County were the ones who pushed for Man Valley to be built even when the state wouldn't give any money for the school to be built because the enrollment projections showed that exactly this would happen. Carroll built a $52 million dollar school without a cent of state funding.

It will be interesting to see if the move the combined NC-MV to 3A for the next redistricting since that would leave the 1A South with 6 schools for football.

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/local/ph-cc-superintendent-recommendation-20151111-story.html

Thanks for the insight, I don't know why I thought they didn't want MV to built. From a football perspective, at least Westminster will now have someone of comparable size in the County to play against!

 

[beall02]

If they combine both schools as of current enrollment figures the new school would be "slightly" (their termonolgy) over capacity but it would "level off" over the next few years. Again, both words they used when announcing the plan.