Bellefonte, Benner elementary schools will soon close. Share your stories with us
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- Both schools will close at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
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After teaching students for decades, two Bellefonte elementary schools are preparing to close their doors.
The Bellefonte Area School District board of directors voted last year to close the Bellefonte and Benner elementary schools at the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year. The closures arrive as the school district prepares to open the new 98,000-square-foot Bellefonte Elementary School along Airport Road behind Bellefonte’s high school.
We want to hear from Centre Daily Times readers and community members with connections to the Bellefonte and Benner elementary schools. Your submitted stories, anecdotes, photographs and comments could appear in an upcoming story highlighting the schools’ collective histories and impact.
Please use this linked Google Form to let us know how Bellefonte Elementary School and Benner Elementary School impacted you over the years. Do you remember walking their halls as a student or sending your own children there years later? Perhaps you instructed students in their classrooms or helped keep the buildings in tip-top shape. No matter what, we want to hear your fondest memories and stories to celebrate their history.
Our Google Form will accept reader submissions through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, May 17. You can access the form by following this URL: https://forms.gle/QefLrsjRkdQKoiH97.
Readers can also email submission to reporter Matt DiSanto at mdisanto@centredaily.com.
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