Petruzielo: Add Fifth-Grade Levels At Three Schools
The school board will consider approving the recommendations next month.
Fifth-grade classes should be added to Bascomb, Boston and Oak Grove Elementary Schools. That's the recommendation voiced by Cherokee County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Frank Petruzielo to the Cherokee County School Board on Thursday. The superintendent announced the recommendation during the public input hearing the board held for parents to give feed back on the district's annual boundary reconfiguration process. Adding a fifth-grade class at the three elementary schools would mean rising fourth-grade students would complete their elementary school careers at their respective schools. They would then move onto sixth grade at E.T. Booth Middle School. Clark Creek Elementary, which also feeds into Booth, opened this year with a fifth-…
