Chandler Middle School slated to be closed, RTD reports
The 300 students at Chandler Middle School in North Richmond may be looking for a new place to hit the books come autumn, according to a report in last week’s Richmond Times-Dispatch: Richmond’s Chandler Middle School almost certainly will close at the end of the school year because of failure to meet federal academic standards, a […]
The 300 students at Chandler Middle School in North Richmond may be looking for a new place to hit the books come autumn, according to a report in last week’s Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond’s Chandler Middle School almost certainly will close at the end of the school year because of failure to meet federal academic standards, a small group of parents learned during a meeting last night at the North Side school.
The school is in the seventh and final year of improvement efforts prescribed in No Child Left Behind guidelines. Under that plan, if a school fails to reach a sufficient level of academic success, the school district has to close the school or turn it over to the state.
Based on testing earlier in the school year and ongoing biweekly work sessions at the school, administrators are projecting that Chandler will fail to achieve test scores necessary to pass.
Several school administrators and School Board members on hand said turning the school over to the state is not a viable option. Barring a challenge to the federal law, closing the school is a formality.
The same story noted a possible new future for the school, which is located on Brookland Park Boulevard:
What will become of Chandler — in 1960, it became the first school in the city to be integrated — also was left undecided. Former board member Carol A.O. Wolf suggested it as a new home for Richmond Community High School, a 200-student school for the academically gifted.
Carey would neither deny nor confirm that as a possibility.
“It’s all on the table,” he said.
Community’s current home on Patterson Avenue is in need of millions of dollars of improvements to make it handicap accessible.
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