Combining Schools in Crawfordsville to Save Money

Population in cities plays a massive role in how the city is built and maintained. When a city has a large population, everything tends to grow. The buildings multiply, the houses sprout up all over; the churches, police stations, fire stations all expand to fuel the large demand the city puts out. Cities usually tend to have several schools to supply all the kids a proper education; the larger the city, the more schools. But what happens when a city is small? When a city is smaller in population, the buildings are fewer; the city has fewer houses and all the other necessary corporations and building that make up a city grow slimmer. The city has fewer schools because there are fewer children. Crawfordsville Indiana is a relatively small city with 15,000 people and 1,800 high school students. Crawfordsville has three high schools that cost a ton of money to run. Combing all three schools into one would save the city a lot of money and overall be the best decision.

The city of Crawfordsville is wasting a lot of money for three schools. Crawfordsville is in, Montgomery County, which houses Southmont High school, North Montgomery High school, and Crawfordsville High school. Southmont has 500 students; North Montgomery has 500 students; Crawfordsville has about 800 students. This is a small amount of kids for three high schools and having three schools means a lot of bus drivers that need paid. The bus routes for the drivers are rather short and occupy few children, leaving the buses half empty. If the schools were combined it would cut out these small bus routes. This would make for larger routes for the remaining drivers, but the city would have to pay fewer drivers.

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...dents. The combining of schools will allow for the sports teams to grow to maximum potential and put Crawfordsville on the map for high division high school, allowing publicity to see the talent present.

Population plays a huge part in every city. With bigger population comes a bigger overall city; it adds more businesses, churches, schools, and emergency services to accommodate the higher demand. Smaller cities have fewer buildings and have a smaller demand to accommodate for. Population determines how many schools and how many students go to that school. Small cities have fewer schools and large cities have more. Schools cost a lot of money to run and when schools are over populated for the city size, the city is wasting a lot of money. Crawfordsville has three schools for 1,800 students. Crawfordsville needs to combine schools so the city can save money.