The school board will make a final decision on the school’s closure May 12, district officials said.
Nearly a week after parents, students and former employees of East San Jose’s O.B. Whaley Elementary Schoolto demand the district keep it open, a Evergreen School District advisory committee recommended the school close in the wake of a severe budget shortfall and declining enrollment numbers exacerbated by the pandemic.
“Yesterday, she was in tears because her friends are going to have to move somewhere else or she’s not going to have all the friends she’s made,” Rubalcaba said. “She’s worried she’s gonna have a hard time at the new school because she’s had problems in the past with bullies. I said, ‘I tried to fight for your school’ and she said, ‘I know mom, but they don’t want to fight for our school.’”
The Evergreen School District, which includes 16 schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade students, had a peak enrollment of 13,400 students during the 2005-06 school year and numbers dwindled down to about 11,799 in 2017 and 9,784 by 2021, costing the district state funding, according to district figures. It costs nearly $600,000 a year to keep a school open, the district said.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 17: Esmeralda Guel, 5, sits with a sign protesting school closure at O.B. Whaley Elementary School in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 17, 2022. Guel’s family lives a block away from the school.
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