If I Could Have Answered the BOE's Questions

1.  JUST REDISTRICT AND THEY WILL FIT??

BOE Member: "If we close a school KES will be nearly at maximum capacity. This would is problematic."
BOE Member: "Why not leave KES and move RES into MES?"
Rosario response: "We can look into that"

The real answer - Because MES can't absorb over 200 more kids. 

BOE Member : "Can we redistrict to make the two schools even?"
Rosario response: "We can look into that"
The real answer - Already in the "North Campus" class sizes are projected to be from 24-27 kids. Moving more kids into this school will make this even worse.

The two larger schools, KES & MES are used to having about 260-290 kids per school. RES for the past four years is about 230. This means 230 kids at the minimum would need to fill into the remaining two schools. If it is done evenly then we would need to place 375-400 kids in the remaining larger schools.

This maxes out both schools when we account for classrooms needed for Special Education and Life Skills (which MES does not currently have but would need to if RES closed).

This means class sizes 25 or more when 18-20 is the recommended size for educational wellbeing.

2. USING THE EMPTY SPACE

BOE Member: "Can we rent or sell the empty building?"

Rosario: "Unlikely"
BOE Member: "What about to a school type group like BOCES"
Rosario: "They only want to rent space in a school with kids"

The real answer-  Use our "extra space" in each of the three schools to rent to BOCES allowing a revenue into the district while still allowing control over overcrowding.