New elementary in crowded Wake County (N.C.) district opens well below capacity

From The Raleigh News & Observer: The newest school in the Wake County (N.C.) district, Richland Creek Elementary, has a shortage of students. The school, actually a collection of temporary modular buildings until a permanent facility opens in 2014, holds 368 students, but has opened with only 97. Administrators thought families would flock to the new school, but they didn’t count on so many families saying no to attending classes on a modular campus consisting of temporary structures strung together. The demand was so low that the opening of a second modular school, Abbotts Creek Elementary, is being delayed until 2013.