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If you want to encourage families to stay in Warwick and more families to move to Warwick, you need a stable school system. The constant threat of closing and consolidating Warwick schools since the 1980s makes families reluctant to put their children into the Warwick Public Schools. Many make the choice of sending their children to Catholic or private schools and others simply move out of Warwick or avoid living here at all so that their children can be in a more stable school system. They want to avoid the academic, social, and, in high school, athletic disruption caused by not allowing their children to finish in the school that they started in. As the consultant pointed out, high schools that have around 1,000 students are considered large schools. All three of our high school already have over 900 student each. As I pointed out in earlier posts, the ideal sized high school has between 600 to 900 students. We are approaching this ideal size now in each of our high schools. What is the educational and social purpose of consolidating already large high schools? Maybe keeping all three high school with their at most current, and hopefully slightly declining, enrollment is the best option.

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