REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (WCMH) — A Reynoldsburg middle university will near at the finish of the current college 12 months thanks to repairs the district simply cannot pay back for.
The Reynoldsburg City University Board voted Tuesday night time to close Hannah J. Ashton Center Faculty, citing the value of required repairs — approximated at $18 million. The district stated if those people repairs were being produced, it would obtain the university an additional 7 several years. Limited-time period repairs would charge the district $3 million.
“There is currently no extra funding out there to possibly repair or change the developing,” the district posted to its web-site.
An $85 million bond problem that would have paid out for repairs to Hannah J. Ashton and other Reynoldsburg faculties was turned down by voters in November 2021.
The district mentioned the creating needs repairs to leaks in the roof and plumbing complications and to tackle issues with the outside the house of the making. A structural engineer identified the setting up is protected, but there are areas of the making that are not usable without the need of the repairs, the district said.
Pupils getting into the fifth quality following calendar year will be sent to the district’s other elementary faculties, even though grades sixth by way of eighth will shift to STEM Middle at Baldwin Highway and Waggoner Street Junior Significant.
The board’s final decision to near the school at the stop of the school year was 1 of 4 solutions the board thought of. The other options were being trying to keep the school open up at 100% capability for the 2023-24 faculty 12 months retaining the college open at 50% potential for the 2023-24 college yr or closing the university around a two-calendar year interval.
There are at this time 450 pupils in grades fifth to eighth at the college.
Parts of the school day back to 1868, with additions manufactured to the building in 1925, 1954, 1964, and 2005.