City of Methuen Master Plan

Methuen Master Plan 2007
GOAL PFS-2: Continue to provide excellence in education, accommodate increasing
enrollments and support learning with an appropriately designed school environment.
Objectives:
• Ensure that the high school is an appropriately designed school that supports state-of-the-art learning.
• Ensure that the public schools are able to accommodate growing enrollments while keeping to small class size goals.
Strategies:
PFS-2.1: Renovate or build a new high school.
PFS-2.2: Support the Superintendent’s Task Force in their efforts to develop more accurate student
enrollment projections. Study various options to determine how to alleviate perceived
overcrowding at the elementary schools; options include:
• New elementary school
• Re-organize grades so that all Kindergarten is clustered together in a separate
building
• Re-organize grades to include a middle school
GOAL PFS-3: Respond to accommodate a growing elderly population
Objectives:
• Support the Council on Aging in its efforts to accommodate growing numbers of seniors.
• Meet the medical needs of the elderly population.
• Support the provision of affordable senior housing
• Expand affordable transportation options for seniors and handicapped individuals.
• Support the Senior Center in its efforts to expand and transform the services it provides to meet the different needs of
baby boomer elders.
Strategies:
PFS-3.1: Identify potential sites for a satellite senior center to be used primarily for medical purposes
(e.g. clinic).
PFS-3.2: Consider developing town-owned/managed elderly housing.
PFS-3.3: Work with the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority and/or the Northern Essex
Elder Transportation program
PFS-3.4: Renovate the Senior Center in order to provide more programming in the areas of physical
fitness and medical services and to project a different image through a more modern
aesthetic.
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