A Northern California high school will soon shut its doors for good afterstruggling for years amid declining enrollmentand under a whopping $300,000 plus deficit.
Last week, board members with the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education met to discuss the possible closure of George Washington Carver School of Arts and Sciences.
At the meeting, the board voted that the charter school, at 10101 Systems Parkway in Rancho Cordova, will close at the end of the 2025-2026 school year, effective June 30.
The school faces a deficit of more than $388,000 in order to be financially solvent for the 2026-2027 school year,per the district.
Theboard saidthe decision follows several months of careful review of the school’s “fiscal condition, enrollment trends, and potential pathways to sustainability.”
“Based on this analysis, the Board determined that there is not a reasonable likelihood that the school can achieve or maintain fiscal solvency in the coming years. Carver, like all Charter Schools in the State of California, is required to be financially solvent under the law.”
The board did state that it could revisit this decision if adequate external funding is committed to George Washington Carver before the April 30 Board Meeting.
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The school needs to come up with at least “$300,000 in unrestricted funds to remain solvent,” it added.
According to theboard’s executive summary, the school continues to experience a “structural deficit in which ongoing expenditures exceed projected revenues.”
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