South Bay
NO VACANCIES: For the first time in history, the Lennox School District is turning away transfer students and closing registration to residents at three elementary schools.
According to Assistant Supt. Bruce McDaniel, three of the district’s five elementary schools have reached maximum capacity and the two that remain open are nearly full. McDaniel said the kindergarten through eighth-grade district is 100 students beyond its projected enrollment goals for the 1995-1996 school year.
About 6,180 students attend the six schools in the district, compared with 4,823 10 years ago. McDaniel speculates that the rise in attendance comes from an increased number of children living in Lennox.
To deal with the increase, McDaniel said, the school district will hire three new kindergarten teachers and continue to use portable classrooms because all permanent rooms are full. He said that the district has an application on file with the state to build a new school, but that there is no money for new construction projects right now.
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