A small crowd turned out at for a special Beth Center School Board meeting on Tuesday to discuss the possible closure of the district’s middle school. WJPA News spoke with District Superintendent Donald MacFann, who told us that the district is looking at closing the middle school because of a dwindling number of students within the district. MacFann says there are currently a little over a thousand students, a number that does not justify having three separate buildings. MacFann says their proposal, which he says has been met with positive response from parents, would move the sixth graders into the elementary school and the seventh and eighth graders into the high school, creating a new, junior/senior high school. MacFann says the move would save the district some 475-thousand-dollars a year. He says more meetings and votes will be held before official action is taken, but he’s hopeful that final action would be taken before the end of this fiscal year. (Photo: WPXI)