Carson High School plans to absorb Pioneer Academy in the 2024-25 school year
Submitted by Kelsey Penrose on Fri, 05/10/2024 - 8:47pm
On Tuesday, May 14, the Carson City School District’s Board of Trustees will host a meeting at Carson High School at 1111 N. Saliman Street. At the meeting the district will discuss their plan to merge Carson High School and Pioneer Academy.
The following explanation is from the School Board Agenda:
As the Carson City School District continues to see declining enrollment, there are conscious efforts to consider opportunities that present themselves where structural organizational changes can be made that bring a cost savings but also have a minimal impact on the services we provide. With the recent vacancy in the principal position at Pioneer Academy, one of these opportunities has presented itself.
For approximately 20 years, Pioneer and Carson High have operated as two separate school entities, Carson High as our large comprehensive high school and Pioneer as our alternative high school.
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, Pioneer Academy will become the off-site alternative campus of Carson High School, effectively merging the two entities.
An administrator will be assigned to the Pioneer campus, but be considered as a part of the Carson High administrative team. The Pioneer campus will continue offering the same level of service to our students but with a more cost-effective model that sets the district in a good position to continue services to students that may be more successful in that smaller alternative setting.
All students who currently attend Pioneer will continue to attend the Pioneer campus, but now with potentially more streamlined access to the curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular offerings of Carson High School. Meetings with staff and parents have occurred or have been scheduled to explain this structural change.
