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to accommodate the students served at the elementary, junior high school,
and senior high school levels, though there was clearly little original intent
in the facility design to segregate junior high school (now middle school)
and high school students from one another. The school district’s
leadership has made a conscientious effort to provide segregated spaces—
insofar as that is possible—for elementary school, middle school, and high
school students. The very nature of the facility design, however, requires
that students share select, unduplicated core spaces (particularly at the
middle school and high school levels). The very nature of the school’s
design makes it impossible for secondary students to be segregated from
one another (in passing) between and among academic classrooms,
laboratories, shops, cafeteria, media centers, and the like.
Ladysmith-Hawkins School District operated a P-K(4)-4, 5-8, 9-12
organizational configuration during the 2008-09 school year. The school
district’s elementary and high school facilities were specifically designed to
accommodate students served at each of those two organizational levels.
Ladysmith-Hawkins Middle School was originally constructed as the school
district’s secondary school facility. (Ladysmith-Hawkins Middle School has
been remodeled to enhance its “user-friendliness” to middle level students).
The school district’s current three facilities provide for (obvious)
segregation among elementary school, middle school, and high school
youngsters.
During the 2008-09 school year, Weyerhaeuser Area School District
operated a P-K(4)-5, 6-8, 9-12 organizational configuration. The school
district’s elementary/secondary school was designed to accommodate a
small P-K-12 student population, and insofar as was possible, the facility
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