Principal Jeffrey Litz has allowed younger siblings of current transfer students to attend next year as freshman despite Marshall’s closure to transfers.
Over the years, the school population has steadily risen, and with 2,233 students currently, even the extra modulars can no longer accommodate.
“The county decides which schools are at capacity,” registrar Debra Marciello said. “Even at Marshall with our extra trailers we are still at capacity, so we are not accepting any more transfers.”
After finding out about this year’s decision to close the school to transfers, several families of current transfers voiced their disapproval.
“I was looking forward to having my younger sister coming to Marshall,” sophomore and transfer student Rebecca Schuette said. “I thought that she would really enjoy it and so I was disappointed she wouldn’t get the experience.”
In response to the concerns of those families who had been planning to transfer a younger sibling beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, Principal Jeffrey Litz said he discussed with individual families for several weeks on a case-by-case basis.
“There was a lot of back-and-forth discussion for many many weeks about whether or not this one time we would make an exception for those eighth grade siblings, and ultimately we decided to do so,” Litz said.
Despite this exception for certain eighth grade siblings to transfer next year as a part of the class of 2022, Litz said there will not be such opportunity in the future.
“There are a few eighth grade siblings of students who are already in the building who will be coming next year as freshman, but that was a one-time only exception and that exception will not be made again,” Litz said. “From here forth, we are completely closed to transfers.”