MIDDLETOWN — The Lake County International Charter School (LCICS) in Middletown is reinstating its seventh grade and rehiring teacher Andrew Vance.
“Two years ago we made the decision to reduce from K-8 to a K-6 to consolidate our classes on one site,” LCICS Director Gwendolyn Maupin-Ahern said. “We did this because of the state budget cuts and the need to keep our school fiscally strong and it worked. But this spring many of our sixth-grade students, several of whom started in kindergarten in LCICS”s very first year, expressed interest in remaining for an additional year. It was important to us to find a way to make that happen.”
According to Maupin-Ahern, the solution was fairly simple. “With the multi-age classrooms we can be flexible with our configurations.”
During the coming year, LCICS will have kindergarten through first-grade, second- through fourth-grade and fifth- through seventh-grade classrooms.
Maupin-Ahern added, “We will continue to have our small school environment with a maximum of 24 students per classroom, and in fact there is currently a waiting-list for the 5/6/7 class.”
LCICS has rehired Vance to teach fifth through seventh grades. Vance previously taught LCICS”s seventh- and eighth-grade class. He moved to Sonoma County in 2009 to be closer to his family, but is returning to Lake County this summer.
For more information about the school or enrollment, email info@lcics.org, call 987-3063 or go online to LCICS” Facebook page or website at www.lcics.org.
