Chandler Middle School will close at the end of the year, as the result of the Richmond School Board's unanimous vote tonight.
For the past seven years, Chandler, a 300-student school on East Brookland Park Boulevard in North Richmond, has failed to meet state and federal academic achievement standards.
"This is not a failure of the students," said Kimberly Gray, board vice chairwoman. "We've had seven years. It is a failure of us as adults." But, she said, "every child in the city of Richmond deserves to go to an accredited school."
Closing Chandler will save the city about $800,000 per year.
In the fall, Chandler students could be reassigned to Henderson, Martin Luther King Jr. and possibly Binford and Albert Hill middle schools with no overcrowding issues, school officials said.
The fate of the building has not been decided.
-- Lisa Crutchfield
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