School

This is our sons school. To the left is the "old" school, it was built in the early 1900's, about 1916 I think. They have since added on and the elementary, middle and high school are all connected together. The town that the school is in has a population of less than 800, our towns population is less than 300. Our son is in 3rd grade this year...there are two 3rd grade class rooms with about 26 kids in each class. Wouldnt it be nice to have a graduating class of about 50 students? Here is some information from our schools website....the district covers 137 square miles and enrolls about 550 students with 6 bus routes. All students ride the buses together, no splitting of elementary, middle or high school students. His bus ride is about 40 minutes long to get home in the afternoon, shorter in the morning going to school as he is one of the last pickups. Of course it does take longer in bad weather. There were 12 snow days last year, which was unbelievable...we had awful weather! Those were just the days where there was no school...there were several late starts and early dismissals which had to be made up. The scheduled last day of school was supposed to be May 20th, but the school board decided to extend the school day by 1/2 an hour to make up some of the days that they missed. If they hadnt done that the kids would have been going to school until June 11th, but they were out May 28th. We like the school and all that it has to offer, great teachers who are always willing to answer questions plus that small town friendliness that we just love! There are also after school activities that he can be involved in and was able to join some basketball camps last fall. He had one camp that was 6 sessions long and cost only $3!!! How can you beat that, it was only fifty cents for each hour. Baseball is a big thing during the summer and again very inexpensive...I think that it was $52 for everything and that included his uniform and the adult tshirt that I got for myself. Small town living we love it....it is a 40 minute drive to a community of any considerable size, by that I mean a city having a mall/target/home depot/lowes, etc.