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Decatur will need at least two new schools by 2020
Consultant Thomas Sayre’s statistical projections before Decatur’s school board Wednesday indicate at least a new K-3 school and 4/5 academy will need building by 2020.
Sayre projects that by 2020 City Schools’ enrollment could swell to 8,145 — including students from proposed annexation properties — with the system currently having capacity for 3,859.
Annexation to Decatur’s north could potentially provide land for new schools.
“We don’t have land [within current city limits] to accommodate growth unless the city acquires [property surrounding existing schools] by eminent domain,” Superintendent Phyllis Edwards pointed out.
