Burlington Schools Call For Public Input On Elementary Buildings

BURLINGTON, MA — The Burlington school committee is asking for public input as it faces a decision on elementary school buildings, the district said Wednesday. The district is seeing increasing elementary enrollment and will need more space, they said. They listed four options and asked for the public to comment via online survey or to speak at the Nov. 19 school committee meeting.

According to the press release, "The current options that are being looked at are as follows:

1. Current four school, four site configuration
2. Maintain a 4 school configuration but build two elementary schools on the Fox Hill site with shared common spaces. Give up the Pine Glen site
3. Create a 3 school elementary configuration with a large Fox Hill (similar to Marshall Simonds, about 800 student enrollment) and give up Pine Glen as an elementary school.
4. Pine Glen converted to a PreK-K early childhood center. Three elementary schools configured for grades 1 through 5."

The survey is available here. Respondents can pick their preferred option, explain their reasoning, and propose alternatives.

The committee meeting is Tuesday at 7 p.m., with additional discussion time budgeted to begin at 7:15 p.m.