Lomond View Elementary in Pleasant View — focus of a closure study that prompted an outcry of opposition from parents and kids at the school — will stay open, at least for now.

Weber School District officials on Wednesday voted not to close the school, with Superintendent Gina Butters instead proposing a more thorough analysis of the district’s growth and enrollment trends, looking to the future. Still, she thinks the specter of closure remains.

“While enrollment trends, facility age (and) capital needs are significant factors, the broader regional picture is still evolving,” Butters said. “Lomond View, built in 1959, faces mounting infrastructure challenges, escalating maintenance costs and required state safety upgrades, realities that make a future closure increasingly likely.”

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