Eastern York Middle School

since the 1986-87 school year, our student population has increased by 354 students. by the end of 1995, all of our buildings were over 100% of their rated educational capacity. in 1989, the eastern york board of school directors recognized that this problem would occur in the future and authorized a demographic and physical plant feasibility study to be undertaken by basco associates in the spring. that action touched off the following series of events. fall of 1989...the basco report was presented to the board in october of 1989 and recommended the building of a middle school to house grades 6, 7, and 8 in order to take the pressure off of each elementary school by removing grade 6 and reduce overcrowding at the junior/senior high school by removing grades 7 and 8. 1990...the district investigated the possibility of building a school through privatization, whereby an independent company would build the building and lease it to the school district. the pennsylvania department of educa