The Indiana Area School District will hold a required Act 780 Hearing tomorrow night to allow the public to comment on the future of the Horace Mann Elementary School. The board invites people to air their views on whether to pursue alternative uses for the building on South 5th Street, keep it as an elementary school, or permanently close it, which would open up the possibility of selling it.
In January of 2022, a previous school board voted to end Horace Mann’s use as a school as part of a district reconfiguration plan.
After the hearing tomorrow, there will be required 90-day “cooling off” period, during which no decisions can be made regarding the school’s future. The hearing will be from 6 to 9 PM at the Senior High School auditorium, and will also be streamed at the district’s website.
The Marion Center School Board also meets tomorrow. They, too, have been talking about the configuration of their elementary schools, with discussion at last week’s work session of a plan to change Rayne Elementary to a PreK to second grade school, with the W.A. McCreery School to become a third through sixth grade school.
