Crowded Classrooms: Stokes commissioners take first steps to relieve strain of growth in its elementary schools

KING (Winston-Salem Journal) - The Stokes County commissioners authorized the school board yesterday to buy land for a new elementary school to relieve overcrowding at King and Mount Olive elementary schools.

With chairman Leon Inman recusing himself, the four other commissioners voted unanimously to provide $1.3 million to buy 62 acres on N.C. 66 south of Mountain View Road. The parcel is big enough for the school system to build another school there in coming years.

The five commissioners also voted unanimously to provide $1.04 million to buy pods for students at Nancy Reynolds Elementary School to use during the 2009-10 school year while the school is being renovated or replaced. The two 10-pod units will be set up at Pinnacle Elementary School.