Westwood High teetered on the edge of closure for years. Will Memphis buy in to the middle school merger that could keep it open?
Community members listen during a meeting Dec. 10 discussing the possible merger of the Chickasaw Middle and Westwood High schools. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Westwood High has teetered on the edge of closure in recent years, a target for its academic performance and costly mound of building improvements.
The Southwest Memphis school has since made academic improvements and received millions of dollars worth of campus improvements.
Although the target on the high school dissipated, it remains for the Westwood neighborhood. Chickasaw Middle could close at the end of the school year, one of five closures Memphis-Shelby County Schools officials have proposed to launch a new long-term facility plan.
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Laura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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