The Marietta Board of Education voted Tuesday to unify disability services at Park Street Elementary by moving students from Dunleith Elementary.
Also, 65 students from the Lassiter Mobile Home Park and 12 from the Frey Gin Road and Banberry areas will be moved from Lockheed Elementary to Park Street for the 2015-16 academic year.
Superintendent Emily Lembeck said this transition will relieve enrollment at Lockheed, which has no more classroom space, and should result in less travel time.
Dunleith also is at capacity with enrollment expected to increase, but Park Street had a drop in enrollment from 634 in 2013-14 to 565 this year and more available classrooms.
The travel distance will decrease for these Dunleith students, residing in five of seven home school zones.
Dunleith students with profound and severe intellectual disabilities will be moved to Park Street to give them and their special education teachers more administrative support and more space with $50,000 in infrastructure updates.
Those improvements will include bathrooms, a chair lift, offices for the department administrator and the special education nurse and spaces for the occupational and physical therapists.
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