The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has decided to close Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School at the end of the school year due to budget shortfalls.
By Jonathan Snyder, Stars and StripesEielson Air Force Base entrance in Fairbanks, photographed on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has decided to close Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School on Eielson Air Force Base at the end of the school year due to“I recognize the closing of Ben Eielson Jr/Sr High is incredibly hard news for impacted students, families, and staff,” Luke Meinert, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District superintendent, said in a news release.
“I share your disappointment with the decision to close our school,” Townsend said in a news release. “We did our best as a community to influence the final decision but the inability of the district to find a solution to the budget shortfalls ultimately drove the closure decision.” Ben Eielson is the second base school to be closed recently. The school district in 2022 shuttered Anderson Elementary School and moved its kindergarten and first grade to another base school, Crawford Elementary. The schools on Eielson Air Force Base are administered by the local school district, not the Department of Defense Education Activity.
Closing the school would save the school district $2 million a year and $13.9 million in needed facility repairs, according to
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