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Article: Prairie du Chien; Eastman School will close next year
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2005
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It might be the end of the Eastman School as we know it.
The Prairie du Chien Board of Education has voted 6-1 to close the
two-story building next year. Enrollment in the pre-kindergarten-to-
fifth-grade has declined to 31 students this year. Board member
Lonnie Achenbach, of Eastman, dissented.
Enrollment at the pre-kindergarten-to-fifth-grade school dipped to
31 students this year, even though 60 could attend, Achenbach said.
Superintendent of Schools Jim O'Meara will schedule a public
meeting, probably in early November, to see if parents would be
interested in using the ...