No wonder the elementary school Retiring Guy attended in Warren Pennsylvania looks like this

 

It's being repurposed for housing.  An ongoing project for more than 10 years.  Not sure if it will ever be completed.  The bottom half of the  photo used to be a summertime wiffle ball field in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  A grassy expanse, once upon a time.

Photo by Retiring Guy

Total enrollment has dropped 56% since the 1979-80 school year.   The peak enrollment period occured during the mid-1970s.

Twenty years ago, the school district consolidated the elementary schools in the City of Warren and opened the Warren Area Elementary Center.

 

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