We can handle 750. Next year the facilities won't be able to handle 850. With the building of a new middle school still two years away and an extra big class of fifth-graders coming in, Sterling is facing two years of student overflow and possible double sessions. If the 1997 bond proposal to build new schools had passed that year, the transition into summer vacation would be nice and smooth for the Eastmont School District. Any changes would have to be approved by the Eastmont School Board.
Double sessions is one option.
These classes would be available to less than half of the student body at any one time. More than 50 parents at a meeting held at the school Tuesday night to discuss possible solutions were concerned about the reduction of Unified Arts classes, but talked more about day care issues. Many said they were afraid of what might happen to their children during the extra hours in the morning and the afternoon that they would spend alone. There's a lot of weirdos out there. The school already has four portables.