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QSD board approves change to K-3
Pionneer and Mountain View to be neighborhood schools next school year
The Quincy School Board approved a plan to convert Mountain View Elementary School and Pioneer Elementary School into neighborhood schools for kindergarten through third grade.
The action came during the board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 23. The change wouldn’t take effect until the 2012-2013 school year, said superintendent Burton Dickerson.
Currently, Mountain View has all of the kindergarten and first grade students in the district who do not go to George Elementary School. Pioneer Elementary School has the second- and third-grade students.
Converting the schools to have all four grade levels was the proposal of a special grade-span advisory committee made up of board members, parents and staff members. Having the schools serve K-three was proposed as an interim plan to eventually having K-five neighborhood schools in Quincy and then a six-to-eighth-grade middle school.
“The primary benefit anticipated from the changes is the reduction in the number of transitions students and parents experience in changing from one school to another,” stated the committee’s report to the board.
Dickerson said the district will have to explore a number of options to decide how best to set up the Pioneer and Mountain View plan so it will work for students, parents, staff and the district.
“There is much to consider,” he said.
An advisory committee with all of the stakeholders will likely be set up to help advise the board on how to proceed to have the changes made by the next school year, he added.
