Wrightstown Elementary to Become K-4 School in September

Starting next year, there will be no fifth and sixth grades at Wrightstown Elementary School. Instead those students will attend Newtown Elementary School.

The Council Rock School Board on Thursday voted to approve a grade reconfiguration plan for the school in order to meet the goal of eliminating all district modular classrooms by September. Wrightstown has five modular units.

The plan was offered by the district administration, who said reconfiguring the grade structure at the school was the only way to handle capacity.

Several parents from Wrighstown Elementary opposed to the plan, saying reconfiguration of just one district school would compromise the overall integrity of a K-6 educational experience.

The reconfiguration plan follows months of debate over consideration of closing the elementary school altogether as part of the district’s capital planning process.