One-Room Schoolhouse May Soon Become Two
If things don’t change soon, the county’s only one-room schoolhouse--located at Two Harbors on the remote west end of Catalina Island--may become two rooms, residents say.
The school has served pupils in kindergarten through sixth grade. But to avoid overcrowding this year, the sixth-graders are bused for an hour to the elementary school in Avalon, said Randy Bombard, the parent of one of the 17 students now attending the barn-red schoolhouse.
Bombard, who also works with the foundation that raises money for the school, said that by 1992 the school will be able to serve only students in kindergarten through second grade if population growth trends continue. Members of the Long Beach Unified School Board, who gathered this week to hear the parents’ concerns, said they would take the problem under advisement.
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