“We’re just continuing to close and consolidate older buildings that remain in our inventory but which are not scheduled to be rebuilt,” district spokeswoman Jill Moberley said.
The district estimates 80 positions would be reduced “but we expect to assign those positions,” she said.
Dayton Education Association President David Romick said the plan would be to move displaced employees into other open positions in the district based on seniority.
Romick called it an example of “the district and union working closely together to do what’s best for the district and taking care of employees at the same time.”
About 30 medically fragile students at Gorman School, 156 Grant St., along with four preschool units that operate in that building, and the staff will move into the district’s Preschool Academy building at 329 Abbey Ave.
At the Preschool Academy, current Title 1 Early Childhood Education students will move on to kindergarten. Students in the Early Childhood Inclusion Preschool program will attend preschool or kindergarten in another Dayton Public school, based on selection and availability, district officials said.
Students enrolled in a Head Start Program will move on to kindergarten, apply for another district preschool program, or enroll in a Head Start program offered through the Miami Valley Child Development Center.
Moberley said the district has notified and met with staff and parents whose schools or programs are affected and has placed an administrator at Patterson-Kennedy to assist parents with selecting another district school for their students.
About 120 students who will be in the seventh- and eighth-grade next year will attend the new Belmont High School currently under construction, and students in the English Language Learners program would go to the new River’s Edge Montessori School that’s also being built, Moberley noted.
“The remaining students would be assigned to a school based on selection and availability,” she said.
Patterson-Kennedy, Gorman and the Preschool Academy are among the district’s older “legacy schools.”
The district last summer broke ground on its 26th and final school as part of a $627 million construction program, the region’s largest.
Twenty-two have since opened and the last four will open next school year.
In 2011-12, Fairview and Wright Brothers preK-8 schools will welcome students, along with River’s Edge and Belmont.
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