# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-27T15:27:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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The Board of Education for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools recently met to hear a presentation about closing one of its elementary schools. While the conversation is hypothetical, the discussion explored how doing so would help maximize district resources and cut down its spending.

At the meeting on August 14, CHCCS Board Chair George Griffin stressed how the preliminary conversation currently reflects neither a recommendation or plan to close an elementary school. 

“My fear tonight is someone is going to get a piece of this presentation and immediately start to say there’s another agenda or we’re trying to close a school,” Griffin said. “We’re simply not. But we did want to have a sense for board members of what are the realities of dollars and dollars saved.”

CHCCS Deputy Superintendent for Operations Al Ciarochi led the presentation, focusing on how closing a school could help address evolving enrollment patterns, maximize district resources, and promote educational equity across the schools.

While there is a high returning enrollment for CHCCS middle and high schools, Ciarochi said student enrollment is declining at the elementary level, with fewer kids entering at that point. As a result, he said some classrooms are not being utilized. 

“When you look at the classes that we have within our district, we do not have classes that are empty,” Ciarochi said. “Our classes are appropriately sized and we have the appropriate staff. It’s not a situation where we have more teachers than we have students. What we do have in our buildings is we have spaces that are available to be used if you were to hire additional teachers [for] if we had additional students.”

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