Asheville City Schools is expanding the preschool program to include six locations with 12 classrooms and a capacity of 216.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the district had four locations with 11 classrooms and a capacity of 198 students. These numbers do not include Montessori students or a child care classroom at Asheville High School.
The district s largest preschool program at Asheville Primary School will close after this school year the latest development in a contentious plan to close the West Asheville school altogether.
Asheville Primary s six preschool classes will be spread among existing district preschools programs at Hall Fletcher, Ira B. Jones and Isaac Dickson elementary schools, according to a recent press release.