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Over the last 8 months, Lakewood’s school board has been considering whether or not to close one or even two of our neighborhood elementary schools - some of our community’s most precious assets. We at Preserve Lakewood Schools remain very concerned about the lack of consideration for Lakewood’s broader community’s input in this conversation.

The Board of Education and the district are entrusted to manage the school system. With good management, there can be seven elementary schools—preserving our neighborhood schools and safeguarding them for our future. With enrollment stabilizing, classroom sizes projected to equalize starting with the 26-27 school year, little financial benefit, and an overarching lack of transparency, our question remains: Why are we still discussing closing an elementary school?

Lakewood is a city with a high quality of life, positive momentum, and a history of providing its residents with the best in public assets and services. A bedrock of this value proposition has always been our Lakewood City Schools and their neighborhood-based model of education. In practice, that has always meant an excellent standard of learning set within walkable schools.

Lakewood City Schools parents voiced their concerns about the board of education’s proposal to repurpose possibly one or two of the elementary school buildings. The meeting, Monday night, was held at Roosevelt Elementary, which is one of the buildings up for consideration. The other elementary schools a part of the discussion are Grant and Lincoln. The district currently has seven elementary schools.

A battle is brewing over the future of elementary schools in the city of Lakewood. The school board is currently considering a proposal to close two of the city’s seven elementary schools to save money. Parents are outraged and have been gathering support, most recently showing up in numbers at the Monday, April 7 school board meeting.

by Caitlin Solomon There has been much back-and-forth discourse on the topic of potentially repurposing (closing) 1 or 2 of Lakewood’s...

The Lakewood City Schools, including all seven elementary schools, are a public institution. Once we lose an elementary school ...

Members of the community and members of the Preserve Lakewood Schools group shared many different perspectives on elementary...

Six concerned residents from Preserve Lakewood Schools met with school district officials on March 11, to share their recommendations...

All of these things of great and little consequence add up to something not quite right in this process and that’s why I am not sure...