Superintendent Gives Update On School Restructuring

VESTAVIA HILLS, AL - The Vestavia Hills Board of Education heard a statement from Dr. Todd Freeman this week regarding next year's reconfiguration of the system's schools - including the addition of an elementary school, the closing of another, and the relocation of a middle school.

Freeman's update can be seen here:

Start and end times for the 2019-20 school year have been finalized for each school, and are as follows:

• All elementary schools will start at 7:45 a.m. and end at 2:35 p.m.
• Both Pizitz and Liberty Park Middle Schools will start at 8 a.m. and end at 3 p.m.
• The freshmen campus, located at the former Pizitz Middle School, will start at 8:25 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m.
• Vestavia Hills High School will start at 8:10 a.m. and end at 3:20 p.m.

As well, the district will send out three different letters of intent to current teachers for the 2019-20 school year: one for elementary schools affected by the reconfiguration — East, West and Central — one for the high school and one for everyone else. All teachers at Central, which will go offline at the end of the current school year, will be re-assigned, but not all will be able to teach fourth and fifth grade. Teachers will be given the chance to teach a different grade at their current school or to teach the same grade at a different school.

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