Future of Aurelia High School
Aurelia has been plagued by declining enrollment for a number of years, but due to sound financial management over the years, has been able to maintain a school while seeing class sizes fall to under 20 per graduating class. In the last 20 years, there has been much talk about sharing with other nearby schools. After a brief sports-only sharing agreement with nearby Alta High School that lasted from 1990-1996, Aurelia operated independently for another 13 years. Starting with baseball in 2009-10, Aurelia has again begun sharing some sports with Alta, who is a longtime sport rival. In 2010-11, the schools will share all sports but Volleyball and Softball and after much debate in the community, the schools will enter into whole-grade sharing in 2011-12, with Alta taking in all of Aurelia's high school students, Aurelia's high school housing the 7-8 grade for both schools. And each district maintaining separate K-6 buildings. There was a major concern about where the high school would be located in this full-grade sharing proposition at first since Alta is the bigger school, but has a substandard high school and Aurelia's facilities are all up to standard and in good condition. Still, Aurelia's building was seen as too small and Alta's recently built Middle School was seen as the best alternative, with a new wing for Music and Industrial Tech classes planned for construction this coming spring.
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