BUTLER TWP — It will be several weeks before the Butler School District has a better idea of how it may sell four closed schools.

Its first idea of closed bids ended Monday night when the school board rejected both bids made on two school buildings.

District officials opened the bids Friday. The Center for Community Resources bid $150,000 for Broad Street Elementary School and Robert Oesterling bid $100,000 for either Oakland or Clearfield elementary schools.

Neither of the bids met the appraised values of the buildings, which were released Monday night.

The district hired David King and Kyle McCown to appraise the buildings over the summer.

King appraised Broad Street at $578,000; Clearfield at $247,000; Oakland Elementary at $425,000; and Meridian Elementary at $660,000.

McCown appraised Broad Street at $335,000; Clearfield at $225,000; Oakland at $300,000; and Meridian at $400,000.

The averages of both appraisers are $456,500 for Broad Street, $236,000 for Clearfield, $362,500 for Oakland and $530,000 for Meridian.

The board did not determine what it will do next to try to sell the recently closed schools, but Dale Lumley, superintendent, said that would be decided by the next board meeting on Oct. 12.

The school district closed Broad Street, Center Avenue, Clearfield, Meridian and Oakland elementary schools in June as part of a district wide consolidation plan. Center Avenue was repurposed into a special needs and alternative school.

The district wants to to sell the four remaining buildings.