WILSON CO., Tenn. -
On Monday night the Wilson County School Board voted and approved to send a new building expansion plan to the Wilson County Commission Education Committee.
The proposed building expansions would ease overcrowding at Rutland Elementary, West Elementary and West Wilson Middle, as well as bring upgrades to an outdated high school in Watertown.
"Our building is just not built for the number of students that we currently have," explained West Wilson Middle School Principal Wendell Marlowe.
Marlowe told Nashville's News 2, currently his middle school has around 200 more students than the building was designed to handle.
He said the increase in students is a problem that will not be going away without building additional school space.
"Because the area that feeds the school continues to grow, then our school will increase in years to come," he explained, adding, "Anything that we are talking about and discussing at this point in time whether it passes now or whether it passes in a few months, the needs are there. It is not anything that we are dreaming up, the numbers speak for themselves," Marlowe said.
Marlowe said any improvements made to Wilson County schools will only benefit and assist students.
