NATCHEZ — The Natchez-Adams School District Board of Trustees will discuss closing Morgantown Leadership Academy at 11 a.m. today at the Braden Administrative Board Room.

The former Morgantown Middle School is now composed of three different academies, college prep, arts and leadership. Interim Superintendent Fred Butcher recommends closing Morgantown Leadership Academy and merging the students and staff with the college prep academy to create one middle school. The consolidated student-teacher ratio would become 14 to 1.

Currently, the leadership academy has a student-to-teacher ratio of 8 to 1, while the college prep academy has a ratio of 12 to 1. The enrollment of the combined middle school would be 244 students.

The proposed merger would give the school a combined teaching staff of 17, which would create one vacancy where currently six vacancies exist. An assistant principal would also be added to the staff to provide administrative support.

Butcher said he did not want to discuss the closure of the school until he had a chance to talk to the school board.

Four of the five board members who were reached by phone Tuesday afternoon said they had not had a chance to review their packets of items to be discussed at today’s meeting. Board member Thelma Newsome could not be reached for comment.

Morgantown Middle School was restructured for the 2014-15 school year following two straight years of receiving an “F” rating.