Linden-Kildare CISD has announced they are closing the Mae Luster Stephens Junior High School immediately and most likely permanently. The cost-cutting move will see kids transferred to the high school campus. (Photo by Vernon Groce)
L-K shuts down junior high campus
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 5:00am
Shawn Larson
Linden-Kildare CISD has announced they are closing the Mae Luster Stephens Junior High immediately and most likely permanently. They will be moving the students to the High School starting this coming school year, in the Fall of 2024.
According to Rex Burks, the acting Linden Kildare CISD Superintendent, they will be transferring the Junior High students to the High School in a cost-cutting move. Burks said many parents were concerned about mixing the two campuses for safety reasons, however, even though the students were on the same campus, the junior high students would be in a separate building most of the day which many call the “Second Hall”.