It’s time for the taxpayers of Moultonborough to seriously consider the selling and closing of the elementary school located on Whittier Highway (Route 25).
Place the elementary students to the back school – the current high school.
Tuition out the high school students to Kingswood in Wolfeboro or Lakes Region in Meredith.
There is just not enough students to justify the large staff and ancillary staff to justify a full high school. Enrollment trends are declining and nothing seems to be stopping this decline.
Strict and ever expanding zoning prevents any kind of workplace and/or affordable housing to be constructed in Moultonborough in the short term or long term.
The last two applications to construct new businesses in Moultonborough have been denied and/or delayed. Yes, Crucon is an exception. But how many new businesses can afford that type of buildings?
The town population is declining. The town population is aging with Moultonborough a retirement destination.
People should become informed as to what is happening in New Hampshire and Moultonborough specifically.
Read up on this article and this study.
“The experience of the Moultonborough School District, Joyce said, mirrors these statewide trends. Enrollment fell from 651 in the 2006-2007 school year to 529 in 2013-2014, a decrease of nearly 19-percent, matching the rate of decrease in the town's population from 4,960 to 4,078. As a share of the town's total population, school enrollment has shrunk from 23-percent in 1995 to 13-percent in 2013.”
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Also, read the study done by Kenneth Johnson titled:
New Hampshire Demographic Trends in the Twenty-First Century
Do an internet search for this study as it is in pdf format.