New elementary facility will end K-12 configuration at North Carolina school

Princeton School in Johnston County, N.C., is 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 sense of community that other public schools cannot.

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