SEA ISLE CITY — Students in the fifth through eighth grades here will not be walking or riding their bikes to school next year. They’ll be taking a northbound bus.
The boards of education in Sea Isle City and Ocean City have entered into an agreement by which Sea Isle’s approximately 25 middle school aged students will attend Ocean City Intermediate School. The enrollment in Sea Isle was approximately 70 this year and is likely to be only 50 next year.
Sea Isle School Board President Valere Egnasko described the agreement as an extension of the existing send-receive agreement between the two districts, which allows Sea Isle’s older students to attend Ocean City High School.
“I can’t tell you how thrilled I am for the students,” Egnasko said. “They’re going from having only a handful of extracurricular activities here, to scores of them in Ocean City.”
“I’m especially glad for the three children in seventh grade,” she added. “How much fuller their eighth grade experience will be just thrills me.”
According to Egnasko, the agreement calls for per-pupil tuition payments to Ocean City and leaves transportation costs as Sea Isle’s responsibility.
Egnasko, who’s running for reelection to the board, told the Herald the Sea Isle board signed the agreement on March 17 and the Ocean City board signed the next day making it official.
Contact Hart at (609) 886-8600 Ext 35 or at: jhart@cmcherald.com
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