School Consolidation and Closure

Indiana

WVPE.org - July 10, 2025

The South Bend Community School Corporation will retain ownership of the former Clay High School building, following a 5–2 vote by the school board Wednesday night. The resolution allows the district to continue using the facility for storage, office space, training, and potentially for expanded career and technical education (CTE) programs. Board member Stuart Greene…

Maine

The Maine Monitor - June 15, 2025

As children played at recess during one of the final weeks of the school year, MSAD 58 Superintendent Laura Columbia explained how several towns began pushing to leave the school district this spring, mainly out of concern that their communities could lose their local schools. “I’m not coming here to try to close a school,…

Maine

The Maine Monitor - June 15, 2025

As children played at recess during one of the final weeks of the school year, MSAD 58 Superintendent Laura Columbia explained how several towns began pushing to leave the school district this spring, mainly out of concern that their communities could lose their local schools. “I’m not coming here to try to close a school,…

Guam

Kuam News - June 9, 2025

How can idle or underused public schools be turned into revenue to support the maintenance of active campuses? Lawmakers discussed a bill that aims to do just that, drawing support from education officials at a recent public hearing. It’s a straightforward measure in intent, but one with far-reaching potential to support the Guam Department of…

Michigan

Bridge Michigan - May 30, 2025

Back in 2022, lawmakers allocated $5 million for school districts to explore consolidation. No one took the lawmakers up on it in the first year. But the following year, 16 districts got money to study consolidation. Still, no local district has actually consolidated. K-12 enrollment in public schools is declining amid lower birth rates in…

Texas

NBCDFW.com - May 20, 2025

The Fort Worth Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 8-0 with no discussion or comments, to approve a plan developed by district administrators to close 18 campuses, mostly elementary schools, over the next five years. Parents from Briscoe and De Zavala elementary schools packed the board room Tuesday night, many took a back seat…

Ohio

Signal Cleveland - May 5, 2025

As the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) makes plans to close an unknown number of schools, people have questioned what shutting buildings could mean for surrounding neighborhoods. At a CMSD community meeting last month, parents, teachers and Cleveland residents weighed in. Some said having a school in their neighborhood makes it safer. Others said schools…

Illinois

NBC Chicago - May 5, 2025

When the Chicago Board of Education made the decision to close 50 public schools in 2013, it set a goal to sell or tear down all the closed buildings by 2017. But today, 21 of the 50 abandoned buildings remain -- proverbial beached whales in the middle of often-struggling residential communities -- on Chicago’s West…

Wisconsin

CBS 58 - May 1, 2025

Waukesha is known as the birthplace of electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, but when it comes to the future of its schools, this community is striking the same chords as many others across Wisconsin. Declining enrollments are forcing tough decisions, and administrators on Thursday presented a plan to adapt by reducing the district's building space…

Louisiana

The Advocate - April 29, 2025

Nine public schools in Baton Rouge are closing, four are relocating, seven are getting new grade configurations and 12 will have redrawn attendance zones under sweeping action taken Monday by the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. The school board, without opposition, approved Supt. LaMont Cole's long-in-the-making realignment plan. The vote sets off a three-month…