McKinley Academy an alternative high school that focused on nurturing students that benefited from a smaller scale learning opportunity, closed its doors as part of the Manitowoc Public School District’s restructuring and reorganizational plan effective this school year.
Superintendent Marc Holzman tells SeehaferNews.com that “the board has a building and ground committee that has had a tour of the facility” and now they are waiting on an appraisal of the building so they can decide what to do.
Holzman added that they will keep the building maintained, and use it as storage until the board makes a public decision on the fate of the building.
Sixth-grade students moved from elementary to middle school while ninth-graders now attend Lincoln High School. The MPSD was one of a few districts statewide that didn’t operate under this structure until this year. Holzman says the transition has gone “as well as to be expected” for students and staff.
