Schools Face Sports Challenges Rockland, Georges Valley Face a Lot of Work in Combining Programs

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Barely five miles apart along the Maine coast, Rockland District High School and Georges Valley High School of Thomaston are two examples that declining school enrollment is not confined to rural inland areas of northern and western Maine.

Once a Class A school for interscholastic sports, Rockland is barely a Class B program today with approximately 400 students.

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Schools Face Sports Challenges Rockland, Georges Valley Face a Lot of Work in Combining Programs

Georges Valley, a longtime Class C school, has dropped to fewer than 280 students.

Together it's likely they would still compete in Class B, and by September 2011 they'll get that chance.

Already linked at the administrative level as Regional School Unit 13 - the result of ongoing reorganization efforts around the state - the schools will fully consolidate in September 2011 as the result of a vote earlier this year by the RSU 13 board of directors.

"There's a lot of work to be done, and everybody is aware that it needs to be done in a timely manner," said Georges Valley athletic administ...

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