The Silver Lake-Salem Joint 1 School District needs your help finalizing a plan to update our facility.

Based on a recent facility study and a series of community strategic planning meetings, we identified some of the most pressing needs:

➢ Update the campus and replace major infrastructure (roofs, plumbing, lighting, technology)

➢ Improve safety and security

➢ Renovate outdated classrooms

These projects cannot be paid for within our annual budget. Therefore, we need your feedback through this survey to understand the priorities of our taxpayers.

To keep all feedback confidential, survey responses are collected by an independent education research firm.

Please Take Our Survey

The community-wide survey will be mailed to all district residents on November 7 and remain open until November 25. The District plans to use the survey responses to help identify community priorities and specifically what projects, if any, would be supported by taxpayers.

Residents are encouraged to complete the survey online. Paper surveys can be returned to any school district office or mailed to School Perceptions, the independent education research firm that will analyze the survey data. The survey code can only be used once. To obtain more surveys for other adults in a household, please contact Kim Taylor at ktaylor@silverlakejt1.k12.wi.us.

Results will be shared at the December 12 Board of Education meeting. The Board of Education will continue planning for facility improvements depending on survey results.

Community Information Meeting planned to present more information

Residents who would like to learn more about the facility study, the plans presented in the survey, or have other questions are invited to attend a community information night.

November 19, 2024, 6 p.m.

Riverview School, 300 E Prosser Street, Silver Lake, WI 53170

To receive the survey in a different language or if you have a disability that makes it difficult to read, please contact the District Office.