BUCKLAND, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — The Mohawk and Hawlemont school committees have voted this week to move forward with the recommendations made by the sustainability study steering committee.
The districts will be working towards a centralized campus with all students at Mohawk Trail Regional School over the next five to seven years. The process will take place in two stages.
In the immediate first stage, while work is done to make accommodations for students at Mohawk by applying for funding through the Massachusetts School Building Authority, some elementary schools will close and consolidate to save costs. Sixth grade will move to Mohawk to form a sixth through eighth grade middle school. And the two districts will merge to save costs on administration.
The second phase to be realized in as little as five years would be to move all students to the Mohawk campus once accommodations are made for the elementary students.