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One school no longer fits all: K-12 Having kindergartners through seniors makes Princeton School a throwback to simpler times. Johnston's growth will end that.

The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

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Byline: Peggy Lim

Mar. 9--PRINCETON -- High school sophomore Kenna Holt spends first period each morning helping kindergartners. In the hallways, she often passes her brother Nick, a senior; occasionally sees her sister, Nicole, a seventh-grader; and waves to twin brothers Holden and Hart, who are in the third grade. The siblings attend Princeton School in Johnston County -- one of only five public schools in the state that contain every grade from kindergarten through 12th. But Princeton won't remain a K-12 school. Johnston County is completing a deal to buy land for a new elementary school that would siphon off the K-5 students.

With them will go a way of educating that hearkens back to one-room schoolhouses and that advocates say offers a…

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