Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 12, 1993                   TAG: 9308120116
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Medium

GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL OUTGROWING ITS SPACE

And nobody knows it better than the school's governing board.

For the past year, its monthly meetings have been in the school's office. But that space is being turned into another classroom.

Previously, the board had met across the hallway but that room became a classroom last year.

Since it opened for the 1990-91 school year, its enrollment has kept going up.

When it opens next month for the 1993-94 year, it will have reached its cap of 96 students.

That is the maximum the building on the Pulaski County High School campus can accommodate.

And it will take every room to handle it. Wanda Foushee, the secretary, will move into a tiny room off the hallway that previously held the school's research animals.

The room will be renovated, carpeted, painted and - above all - aired out before that move.

Juniors and seniors commute from their home schools in nine localities for half a day for advanced studies in mathematics, science and technology.

Those signed up for the coming year include 53 juniors.

If all 53 should stay on as seniors, that will put the enrollment over the limit in 1994-95.

That is one reason a state evaluation team recommended in April that the school seek larger quarters.

Meanwhile, its board probably will be meeting during the coming year in whatever space can be found upstairs.