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Neenah, there is still, and probably always will be, considerable debate as to what the proper high school size is and in '09 the US Dept of Ed, on this very topic, stated that ".. research to date has been largely non-expiremental and, hence, must be interpreted with some caution..". The cities you site have school sizes that reflect that their very small school districts to begin with. Bt that i mean if South Kingston or Barrington saw forthcoming high school poplulations approaching, say 1400, I'm not so sure they'd rush out to build a second high school. Coventry, among the higher performing districts in the state has 1600 students in its lone high school. Cranston, a higher performing district than Warwick by most measures, has two highs schools for its 3100 students. Personally, I don't think a high school with 1200-1500 students (300 to 375 kids per class) is a mega school - words like that are bandied about too cavalierly, in my opinion.. And remember, that the class sizes will keep declining for the next ten years. The simple fact of the matter is that even with two high schools we'd have populations in them that approximate what they had a handful of years ago. Back then no one was protesting that the schools were overcrowded or that somehow their child's education was being compromised. I completely reject any notions that the resulting size of the two high schools will in any way dilute or degrade the level of educational services. I just don;t see it. One could argue that were were a better performing district back when we had higher populated high schools

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