Route 105 will be the dividing line for school placement as younger students to the north will go to one school at the elementary complex on Mayflower Avenue and those to the south to the other school. The Middleboro School Committee recently heard a plan to divide the town in half, with the line weaving through the downtown, for a reconfiguration plan that will be implemented in the fall.

There are nearly 1,400 students in grades 1-5 at the Mary K. Goode and Henry B. Burkland schools. Grades 1-2 have been taught at the Goode School, with grades 3-5 taught at Burkland School. The administration believes the reconfiguration will promote a better learning environment and help raise scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System. There is a link today on the Middleboro School Department’s website, with the reconfiguration information.

Updated April 19, 2011: Using routes 44 and 105 as boundary lines, the School Committee approved a plan to divide the town in half for classes at the Mayflower Avenue  elementary complex. Children in each zone will be permanently assigned to the Henry B. Burkland School or the Mary K. Goode School for their school years in grades 1-5.  There will be approximately 700 students in each school.

Last year the School Committee voted to reconfigure the Mary K. Goode School,  grades 1-2, and the Henry B. Burkland School, grades 3-5, to two grade 1-5 schools.  The plan was adopted to improve Grade 3 MCAS scores, which are among the lowest in the state. Teachers got their room assignments on April 15, 2011  and parents will be notified by May 3, 2011.

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