Members of the Mathews County School Board took an extended look Friday at the implications of merging/consolidating Mathews Elementary and Thomas Hunter Middle School into one preK-7 school, as part of developing a plan for the division’s long-term capital needs.
Friday morning’s work session, which was held in the historic courthouse, had originally been scheduled for the previous Friday, but that date was changed because of the snowstorm that hit the area.
Time is critical, since county supervisors have indicated to school board members that the deadline for the school board to come up with a plan needs to be advanced. “I don’t know if we have a real clear timeline,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. David S. Daniel.
Last November, at a daylong joint session with the two boards on the school division’s capital needs, December 2025 was the agreed-upon deadline for coming up with such a plan. “I think there is a desire to speed up [that] timeline”, he said.
Daniel said the county lik...