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Expanded School Choice Program Fills Some Seats at Elementary Schools

Enrollments continue to decline in the Groton-Dunstable School District and to address the downward trend, the School Committee voted last spring to expand School Choice within the District to include the elementary schools.

The change in policy allowed the District to open up to 30 seats at the elementary level to students from outside the District. Dr. Bent noted that 30 seats in selected grades were opened in the elementary and middle school levels. Dr. Bent said the District filled 25 of those seats which he said was a great response. Bent noted that all 30 seats were not filled because many applications requested a certain grade level. Nonetheless, he said the new students provide some offset to declining enrollments and will also generate approximately $125,000 in revenue.

Despite enrollment declines, several new families have moved to Groton over the summer and some only days and weeks before the start of school. One such family moved to Groton from Newtown, CT which experienced an unspeakable tragedy when elementary grade students were killed during a shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School there, Dec. 14, 2012. The family had decided to move from Connecticut and had contacted several school districts in the area including the Groton-Dunstable School District. The family was pleased with the response they got from school administrators and that influenced their decision to move to Groton.

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