Seattle Public School Superintendent Raj Manhas has made his preliminary recommendation to close the Pinehurst/Alternative School No. 1 building and co-locate the school at Summit K-12 Alternative School.
Manhas cited the school's smaller building size that is due for major renovations as a main reason for the building's closure and the school's move.
Also, Pinehurst/AS#1 students would have opportunities for art and music, which Summit K-12 currently has.
Pinehurst/AS#1 is currently housed in a smaller building at 11530 12th Ave. N.E., offering K-8 classes; Summit K-12 is at 11051 34th Ave. N.E., about a mile away. Each school would continue to have separate administrative teams, budgets and enrollments.
In the first round of school-closure recommendations, Manhas selected John Marshall Alternative School, Wilson-Pacific and View-lands Elementary School. The administrators at each of these schools are determining where the schools' programs will go. Viewlands' Autism All-Inclusion Program is already planned to move to Broadview-Thomson Elementary School.
The school board will have a public hearing on the recommendation to close Pinehurst/AS#1 on Oct. 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the school.
The superintendent will make his final recommendation during the school-board meeting on Oct. 18, followed by another public hearing on Oct. 24 at the John Stanford Center auditorium, 2445 Third Ave. S.
The school board will vote on the final recommendation on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m.
[[In-content Ad]]
