The recent Mid-Prairie School Board meeting saw a great number of parents and community members in attendance, as they wanted to weigh in on the issue of varying class sizes among the three elementary schools. Business Manager Jeff Swartzentruber said the board asked Superintendent Mark Schneider for recommendations to normalize the class sizes in the district. Schneider presented three options he and the study group thought would solve the problem best. The three options include instituting soft borders for each school in the district, and two different ways of forming attendance centers, which would send all students in one grade to a single building.

Those in attendance weighed in on Schneider’s recommendations, as Swartzentruber explains, “There were some questions from the audience, and we had probably in excess of 90 people attend that session, which was very encouraging that the parents and community members want to be involved in this conversation. In that conversation, the public requested that possibly there be a survey that’s sent out to parents about those three options.” The survey will be sent out in the coming weeks via email, and will then be presented before a public forum to be held at the March 20th school board meeting.