UPDATED 6/13: Removed From Meeting Agenda (ACSD1 Potentially Closing Rural Schools)

The original post made on June 12th was updated June 13th and ACSD has released word that the item has been removed from the meeting agenda

Albany County School District 1 will be meeting to discuss the potential closure of Harmony and Centennial Elementary Schools. The meeting will take place at ACSD1 Central Office Located at 1948 Grand Avenue on Wednesday, June 14th at 7:00PM.

Harmony and Centennial Elementary Schools are encouraging all stakeholders and concerned community members to attend and voice opinions about the proposed closing of these two rural schools. The meeting is open and participants may sign up to speak or simply attend to hear firsthand accounts, questions, and continued proposals. 

Harmony Elementary School has been open since the early 1960s, graduating hundreds of local community members over the years. The school is located on highway 230, twenty miles southwest of town. The school hosts students from across the Laramie valley providing a shorter commute to a vastly large district with harsh Wyoming winter conditions. The student population includes many children from multigenerational ranchers and local blue-collar workers. Harmony also represents as a school of choice, allowing parents the option to choose to send their children to a smaller multiage environment. The school is comprised of 3 grade levels: kindergarten/first, second/third, and fourth/fifth grades. Centennial Elementary school is located in the heart of Centennial, thirty miles outside of town on highway 130. It mimics much of the style of its sister elementary, but is a living one-room school house so to speak, with one teacher servicing all students kindergarten through 5th grade.