<body><div>CABOT – With concerns about the ability to maintain its high school given the pressures created by declining enrollment, and no immediate prospects for merging to create a joint high school, the Cabot School Board plans to put the question of closing its high school and tuitioning students elsewhere for the 2027/28 school year.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0f86Bx_1GxcaRkG00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0f86Bx_1GxcaRkG00" width="1000" height="380" ><figcaption>The Cabot School Board plans to ask for a vote to close Cabot High School and tuition students to schools of their choice on January 6. photo courtesy Cabot School</figcaption></figure>After many months of looking at options and discussion options, the board plans to create two budgets, one based on the current school configuration and one to advance if voters choose to close the school. <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1t9RYv_1GxcaRkG00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1t9RYv_1GxcaRkG00" width="1819" height="465" ></figure>A January 6 vote would allow the appropriate budget to be put to voters on Town Meeting Day, March 2.The board will ask the town attorney to review its motion on the question to be put to voters on Jan. 6. Shall the voters of the Cabot School District direct the Cabot School board to close Cabot High School effective June 30, 2027, and to tuition students in grades 9 –12 to the public high school or approved independent school of their choice in Vermont beginning with the 2027-2028 school year.The board hopes to issue a warning this month, giving voters enough time to learn about the implications of the proposal. There was no new activity reported from the Act 170 Merger Committee since the last meeting, The board’s representative to that committee Ellen Cairns, said she was to hear when the next meeting has been scheduled.</div></body>

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CABOT – With concerns about the ability to maintain its high school given the pressures created by declining enrollment, and no immediate prospects for merging to create a joint high school, the Cabot School Board plans to put the question of closing its high school and tuitioning students elsewhere for the 2027/28 school year.

Cabot High School closure vote planned for Jan. 6

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CABOT – With concerns about the ability to maintain its high school given the pressures created by declining enrollment, and no immediate prospects for mer

Cabot High School closure vote planned for Jan. 6

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