The tiny Rico School in the mountain town northeast of Dolores will remain open for the near future, but some way needs to be found to make it self-sustaining.
That’s according to Dolores County School District Superintendent Bruce Hankins. The school currently has just seven students, but Hankins tells KSJD his goal is to keep it open.
“Once you close a school down, number one, it rarely re-opens, and number two, the community just kind of dies,” Hankins says.
He says student enrollment is down throughout the Re-2J school district and the board will be looking at cost-saving measures. He says everything is on the table.
