A Fairfax County Public Schools staff report has recommended the School Board close Clifton Elementary, an option school officials have considered for weeks.
The Board has considered building a new larger school roughly three miles away, which would house the former Clifton students and alleviate some of the crowding at other county schools.
But many Clifton parents and residents say the school is the focal point of the community, and plan to protest the proposal to shut down Clifton at Thursday’s scheduled School Board meeting.
Supervisor Pat Herrity, R-Springfield, called the staff’s recommendation “shocking and disappointing.”
“This school is a top performing school and too important to the community it serves and I will do everything I can to keep it open,” Herrity said.
