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QPS K-5 boundaries set

QPS K-5 boundaries set

7 years ago by Mary Griffith

Day-care program proposed for Monroe school

The boundaries for the Quincy Public Schools’ five new K – 5 elementary schools have been set. 

The Quincy School Board approved those boundaries during its' meeting Wednesday night, after getting recommendations from a 40-member committee, that worked seven months to try to balance the five areas. Each of the five elementary schools will have about 580 students. The committee says that the economic, ethnic, and academic ability mix of each of the five schools should be about the same. According to the School District, about 62% of students in each of the five new schools live in poverty, and qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Currently, nearly all those students are now clustered at Washington School, where 92% of students come from low income homes.

The Board also learned that when the first of the five new K – 5 schools opens this summer, there may be space for a child care center for school staff.

The new Monroe elementary school is scheduled to open in August, and the School District says that only half of the space in the new school will be used in its’ first year. School Board member Carol Nichols wants the district to offer low-cost day care to teachers and parents in the other half of the elementary school. The day-care would be run as a pilot project, to see if it’s feasible for the Quincy School District to offer. The center would be open 2 ½ hours before the start of the school day, and stay open until three hours after the end of the school day.

The cost for teachers and parents would be about $3 per hour. That's a break-even point, according to Nichols.

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