OXNARD : Panel to Study Plan for Ramona School
Members of the Oxnard Elementary School Board will consider tonight forming an advisory committee to discuss what the district should do with Ramona School.
The 52-year-old school, scheduled to officially close at a ceremony July 20, will be replaced by Ritchen School, slated to open in August, 1992.
Ramona was closed a year earlier than planned because the district needed to cut $2.75 million from its 1991-92 budget. Ramona’s 674 students will be transferred to other schools until Ritchen is completed.
The Ramona School Disposition Advisory Committee will have one year to provide the district with both short-term and long-term proposals for the Ramona School site.
“If something can be done in the short term while the decision is made on the long term, we don’t want to overlook that,” district official Sandra Herrera said. Herrera said that another school district or preschool operation might want to use the school in the short term while long-term disposition of the site is considered.
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