Reopening Mayewood Middle School is expected to cost Sumter School District at least $20,000 in attorney fees, about $13,300 of which has already been incurred as of Friday. The Sumter Item obtained legal billing totals this week via a Freedom of … more

The Sumter school board’s advisory Finance Committee wants the district’s Board of Trustees to reconsider its decision to reopen Mayewood Middle School next school year. Reasoning that … more

The cost to reopen Mayewood Middle School for Sumter School District will be in the range of $1 million to $1.2 million next school year and then about $360,000 to $471,000 in recurring annual expenditures every year after that. Cost calculations … more

Questions remain after an initial vote from Sumter School District's Board of Trustees to reopen Mayewood Middle School came both less than a year after the board voted to close the school and after the legality of the vote was raised. The full … more