Sacramento Country Day School soon could become the only high school in the grid. School officials are close to signing a lease for the Newton Booth School, 2600 V St., according to Stephen Repsher, Country Day headmaster. It also would mark the first time since 1976 that the Newton Booth School is being used as a school. Since closing because of earthquake concerns, it has been home to a medical insurance group and an environmental consulting group. "It could be in the next few weeks," Reps... jmendick Mark Urquhart comment-16816 2009-10-30T17:12:53Z 2009-10-30T17:12:53Z It"s a shame the public (charter) Montessori didn't get offered this prime and beautiful building as a new location. oh well - it"s probably not building code safe or field act safe - perhaps that"s not important for people who can afford $18k/year per child. Mark Urquhart 2009-10-30T17:12:53Z Mark Urquhart comment-15904 2009-10-20T20:53:27Z 2009-10-20T20:53:27Z Well, SCUSD are doing their very best to make sure that there are no elementary schools on the grid either. After moving the Charter Montessori school from it's Pioneer Church/Sutter's Fort location to the old Marshall School this summer (with a lot of help from parents and teachers alike), a new broom, Jonathan Raymond, the newly-hired Superintendent of Sacramento City Unified School District. has had another look at the school and decided it's unsafe due to 'unreinforced masonry'. His solution? move the K-8 kids 7 miles east to the recently closed Thomas Jefferson school. Oddly enough, the safety issues are not bad enough to close the school today, apparently imminent collapse will only happen during the winter break, so that's all right! The marshall School was unanimously approved of by the faculty, parents, kids and the neighbourhood - we want an urban school, a lot of the parents are government/downtown workers we do not want to reverse commute to the 'burbs to educate our kids! If anyone wants to run a full story on this fracas, please feel free to contact me! Mark Urquhart 2009-10-20T20:53:27Z Bill Albertson comment-15712 2009-10-17T03:33:43Z 2009-10-17T03:33:43Z True S, sometimes I think of the way things were here before I took off to find work, rather than after I returned. I stand corrected. Bill Albertson 2009-10-17T03:33:43Z Susie Shields comment-15406 2009-10-13T00:24:30Z 2009-10-13T00:24:30Z It sure would be nice if there was a decent public high school for the central city. The SCUSD has let our communities down. I don't want to have to fork out that kind of money to get my kids a decent education. I think if the SCUSD replaced Sacramento High School like they're supposed to, you'd have people from the former Sac High attendance area assigned to the school. Those areas are downtown, midtown, East Sac, Elmhurst, Oak Park, Tahoe Park, River Park, College Greens, and Glenbrook. These communities certainly could support an outstanding public school. Build it and they will come. Susie Shields 2009-10-13T00:24:30Z savemidtown comment-15324 2009-10-12T05:26:48Z 2009-10-12T05:26:48Z The administrators of the school did their research and indeed, there is a market here for this school. Take a look at the income and demographic breakdown of the central city today not 30 years ago. This perception of Midtown as only poor people is dead wrong. And besides what is wrong with diverse income levels in an area? savemidtown 2009-10-12T05:26:48Z Marion Millin comment-15298 2009-10-12T03:30:57Z 2009-10-12T03:30:57Z "Sacramento Country Day School soon could become the only high school in the grid. " While SCDS could be a good neighbor for the neighborhood, the article headline and leadline are misleading. There will still be no PUBLIC high school in "the grid." Nor will there be the Court-ordered replacement for the closure of Sacramento High School. ALL neighborhoods north of Broadway, from Downtown on the West to College Greens on the East, have been deprived of their historic Sacramento High School campus by Kevin Johnson's underperforming, Federal fund-misusing, female student-abusing, investigation-riddled charter school. Do your job and obey the law, Sacramento City Unified School District. Either boot the failed and felonious St. HOPE off of the Central City's campus or provide the comprehensive high school that you are required to, by Court order. http://www.saccds.com/ Country Day School is "an independent, co-educational, college-preperatory day school for students pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade" aka a private school. Tuition 2009-2010 Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten  $16,400    Grades One to Five  $16,400 Grades Six to Eight  $17,200 Grades Nine to Twelve  $18,700 Marion Millin 2009-10-12T03:30:57Z The Parrhesiac comment-15291 2009-10-12T00:12:56Z 2009-10-12T00:12:56Z Are you kidding....State workers can afford it at their pay levels. As can all the lobbyists and developers kids... The Parrhesiac 2009-10-12T00:12:56Z Bill Albertson comment-15290 2009-10-11T23:53:15Z 2009-10-11T23:53:15Z I'm glad that another quality school is moving into the area, but at $18,700 per year, I don't think many midtowners will be able to afford it. Well, maybe the parents will stick around and spend money in the area. One can hope. Bill Albertson 2009-10-11T23:53:15Z Rhys02 comment-15280 2009-10-11T16:17:47Z 2009-10-11T16:17:47Z Would be an alternative to the African-American High School (fna Sacramento High) Rhys02 2009-10-11T16:17:47Z advocate comment-15262 2009-10-10T23:44:49Z 2009-10-10T23:44:49Z What? Another school in the central city? Much too wholesome! Not going to happen if this city management can stop it! advocate 2009-10-10T23:44:49Z Dale Kooyman comment-15207 2009-10-09T21:27:38Z 2009-10-09T21:27:38Z Since this would be a positive addition to the central city neighborhoods, watch city Development Services place all kinds of roadblocks in the way of it happening. Dale Kooyman 2009-10-09T21:27:38Z