McKinley Elementary School was named one of the 488 schools in the nation to receive a seven-year, $193,000-per-year grant. The money is designed to help the McKinley student body – whose test scores rank among the bottom 20 percent in the state – by adding more teachers, reducing class size, and preventing the school’s rumored closure.

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