Looking ahead...consolidating districts

[Guest KHS 89]

Do you ever see a day on the horizon where Port Neches Groves and Nederland school districts consolidate to form one School District with one High School?

[AggiesAreWe]

If you would have said LCM and WOS, I would have said yes. But not Nederland and PNG.

[Guest 58SHW]

The Ned-ches Sitting Dogs

NO, I can't see that.

[Guest octfeb]

I kinda wondered that about Cleveland and Tarkington or Dayton and Tarkington.

[dayton]

[quote name="octfeb" post="1155445" timestamp="1325876561"]
I kinda wondered that about Cleveland and Tarkington or [b]Dayton and Tarkington.[/b][/quote]

that would be a huge geographical area.....

[Guest octfeb]

[quote name="dayton" post="1155461" timestamp="1325878091"]
[quote author=octfeb link=topic=93810.msg1155445#msg1155445 date=1325876561]
I kinda wondered that about Cleveland and Tarkington or [b]Dayton and Tarkington.[/b][/quote]

that would be a huge geographical area.....
[/quote] Yeah... maybe Cleveland And Tarkington.. Wonder IF that were to happen would the #'s be enough to put them in 4-A? Probably not huh?

[WOSgrad]

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If you would have said LCM and WOS, I would have said yes.
[/quote]

That would probably be the have highest probability of consolidation, but I don't see that happening in the near future, either.

[mat]

The state continues to encourage consolidations for financial reasons. I would presume that any consolidations in this area would have to come from the state level and I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Hypothetically speaking, if NISD and PNG were to consolidate the high schools probably wouldn’t. They could still have two high schools in one district.

[PN-G bamatex]

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Do you ever see a day on the horizon where Port Neches Groves and Nederland school districts consolidate to form one School District with one High School?
[/quote]

No.

I'll admit, if the two districts were forced to consolidate with another district, they'd pick each other over any other school. But even if the districts consolidated into PN-G-N or N-PN-G or PG(N^2) or MJCCISD or whatever, there wouldn't be that many changes. There would still be a Port Neches-Groves High School and a Nederland High School, Port Neches and Groves kids would still go to PN-G and Nederland kids would still go to Nederland, there would still be Bulldogs and Indians, there would still be an Indian Stadium and a Bulldog Stadium, the train tracks would still exist, and most importantly, Mid-County Madness would continue as it always has. The most that might happen is some consolidation of elementary and middle schools, but only on their respective sides of the tracks.

But there's no reason to even think about that, because it'll only happen forty years down the road over several thousand dead bodies. There would be a massive crowd of people in purple t-shirts (and probably a band playing Cherokee) on the capitol building's lawn before that happened.

I do have one question, though. If that happened, would the consolidated district still have to make these stupid equity transfers? If so, would it still be $14 Million a year? They take it from us because so much of our tax base is industrial, but if we consolidated with Nederland, that would be a much smaller portion of the district's taxable assets.