Growing enrollment at Sedalia elementary schools is presenting problems for administrators, especially at Horace Mann Elementary, which Principal Todd Fraley said is “pretty much at maximum capacity.”
During Monday night’s Sedalia School District 200 Board of Education meeting, Assistant Superintendent Brad Pollitt said: “Our elementary buildings are becoming increasingly crowded. They are not over-crowded at this point, but they are still becoming crowded.”
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