Students who attend JB Young School in Davenport, Iowa will be heading to different schools next year. On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, parents got to take a look at where their kids will be learning.
The schools that are taking the transferring students are intermediate schools: Smart, Sudlow, and Williams, and two elementary schools: Jefferson and Madison.
Parents are now trying to figure out whether their kids walk to school or take the bus.
"We have a two-mile walking for middle schools," said executive director Robert Scott. "That's different than elementary. But all of our students in Davenport, if they're inside the two-mile radius they walk to school. If they're outside two miles, they get bused."
The Davenport School Board voted 5-2 in October to shut down the school. The vote came months after the district superintendent proposed closing JB Young. The school operates at 57-percent capacity, the lowest in the district, and closing it is said to potentially save the district $1.9 million in salaries.
Currently, JB Young is the most expensive school to operate in the Davenport School District.