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Pushback by parents concerned about the possible closure of Harvest Middle School — and about reducing access for disadvantaged and minority students — is leading advisers to the Napa school district to look at other ways of shrinking the footprint of a public school system pressured by falling attendance. The task force charged with helping the Napa Valley Unified School District adjust its budget to a contracting student body is turning its attention to a host of options that would shutter one of four middle schools in the city of Napa before the 2022-23 academic year but keep ope...

As a task force of schoolteachers, parents and others ponders closing one of Napa’s middle schools amid falling attendance and state funding, a survey of campuses illustrates sometimes sharp differences in their demographics and communities – including for the junior high school briefly targeted for a possible shutdown last fall. While the Napa Valley Unified School District has an overall glut of hundreds of student spaces, it also faces an imbalance between its recently rebuilt – but difficult to expand – River Middle School in the north, and three-decades-old campuses s...

A team of teachers, parents, principals and school district staff has begun pondering one of the most difficult questions facing local educators: with fewer children entering local schools, a surplus of classroom space and a financial crunch looming, which middle school might close in the coming years? And how can that decision be made as fairly as possible? The possible road toward shrinking the Napa Valley Unified School District’s footprint began Tuesday night with the first meeting of a 50-member task force, which over the next three months will discuss possible changes to where the ...