Colby campus to close

(Park Record) After this year, The Colby School will be no more.

The board of The Park City Day School has decided it cannot justify spending $400,000 a year to maintain a campus at 3770 State Route 224, said Head of School Charles Sachs in an interview Thursday.

"It was not an educational and not a philosophical decision, but a financial decision," he said.

The choice was difficult emotionally, said Board Chair Kristi Cumming in a press release.

The Colby School and Park City Academy merged into the Park City Day School at the beginning of this year. The original plan was to maintain both campuses.

Sachs said enrollment was outgrowing the academy's building before the recession hit, and plans already exist for an expanded facility in Pinebrook. But when the two schools agreed to merge back in winter of 2008, the idea was entertained of building anew on the grounds of The Colby School.

Relinquishing that property means letting that dream die, but the good of the school must be considered in the short term, Sachs explained.

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