JACKSON TWP – A change that would affect 10 elementary students will be considered at next Monday's Seneca Valley School Board meeting, when the board is expected to vote on assigning younger students to schools for the 2022-23 school year.

Due to the opening of the new Ehrman Crest Elementary/Middle School in Cranberry Township and the closing of Evans City Elementary/Middle School, district officials have created a plan on assigning students in kindergarten through sixth grade to an elementary school.

But the families in a small zone created for the reassignment want their elementary students' assignment changed, and they have the support of school board member Jim Nickel.

The 10 students in kindergarten through fourth grade live on specific streets in the Cedarbrook, Settler's Grove and Antler Ridge housing developments in Cranberry.

While many students in Cranberry who now attend Connoquenessing Valley Elementary (CVE) in Harmony would move to Ehrman Crest in the assignment plan, the 10 students in the zone would remain at CVE from kindergarten to grade four, then move to Ehrman Crest for grades five and six.

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