Storage space for student records

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Noble High School is running out of fireproof storage space for student records.

Principal Joseph Findlay said the school is required to keep student transcripts, medical information, and SAT scores for all of the school’s students. He said many of the files, however, which stretch back to the first days of the high school’s existence in the 1960s, have a lot of non-vital information, such as kindergarten screenings from 30 years ago.

Findlay said storing student records is important, which is why the school wants to maximize the space it has for the files, which must be kept in a fireproof cabinet.

There are “thousands of files,” all currently stored in 16 drawers in the guidance office, according to Findlay. He said storage space has been running out “for a little while,” although the dwindling capacity doesn’t stem from a lack of planning before the new building opened in 2001.

“I think most schools get to this point,” he said. “You reach the end of storage capacity at some point, and we have a lot of stuff that nobody ever needs. We have to make room in the cabinets to keep stuff we need to keep.”

Findlay said the excess paperwork will be culled into individual student files starting later this summer, and students can arrange a time to get these non-vital elements out of their files. Findlay said the school won’t just throw out everything and will give students time to get files they wish to keep.

He said he doesn’t know how long the sorting will take because there are “a lot of pieces of paper.”

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