These are the 3 elementary schools that Granite School District will close

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Faced with dwindling student enrollment, Granite School District moved Tuesday night to close three elementary schools.

Its student body is 44% from low-income families.Most students now attending Spring Lane would be moved to Oakwood Elementary; the Chinese dual immersion program currently operated at Spring Lane would continue at Oakwood.• Enrollment decline since 2017:Millcreek Elementary has 52% of students who are from racial and ethnic backgrounds, including 38% who are Latino.

At the same time, Millcreek has the smallest percentage of students living in boundaries for the school. Only 48% of those in the neighborhood attend the elementary. The dual immersion program there would be combined with the existing Spanish program at William Penn Elementary, where Millcreek students who go with the closure. This was a major spot of contention for parents.

Lincoln, in South Salt Lake, has 408 students this fall. It has a minority population at 79%. The students who are economically disadvantaged there account for 70% of those enrolled.The district has also said that closing Moss and Lincoln would require adding more buses to existing routes to transport students to their new elementaries.

 

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Guess the idea of smaller class size was just only ever talk.

Granite has a pattern of closing schools against the wishes of a community. Then blighting property for years and sell to developers for housing. Everyone protests at first.....but after some prostitution, drug deals, homeless camps and eventually fire a neighborhood caves.

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