{"id":269664,"date":"2026-08-21T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269664\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:26:11","slug":"northampton-school-district-sells-former-schools-admin-building-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269664\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton school district sells former schools, admin building | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON, Pa.- In addition to preparing for the upcoming school year, the Northampton Area School District spent the summer unloading some properties it no longer needs.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/northampton-county\/nazareth-northampton-area\/after-years-of-uncertainty-northampton-county-elementary-school-listed-for-sale\/article_a91efe34-75ef-4661-b99d-aaabfd2976b9.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">69 News reported<\/a> in May, in the wake of a budget deficit, the district&#8217;s\u00a0board of school directors voted to sell four properties that would not be in use for the 2026-2027 school year:<\/p>\n<p>Moore Elementary School at 2835 Mountain View Dr. outside Bath in Moore Township.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Elementary School at 855 Lincoln Ave. in Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Technology Center at 2389 Main St. in Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>The former district administration building at 2014 Laubach Ave. in Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Northampton Superintendent\u00a0Joseph Kovalchik tells 69 News that the district has sale agreements in place for all of the properties, with the exception of the tech center.<\/p>\n<p>Both Moore Elementary and Franklin Elementary are being sold for the district&#8217;s asking price, $3.4 million and $1.025 million, respectively, Kovalchik said.<\/p>\n<p>The admin building fetched a lower price; it&#8217;s being sold for $910,000. The district&#8217;s asking price was $1.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Technology Center is still on the market for $1.39 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district announced a redistricting plan in September of 2025 that included closing and selling the tech center, Franklin Elementary and the admin building. It also voted to close Moore Elementary for the 2026-2027 school year, but, at that time, the district was still considering renovating the school or knocking it down and building a new school on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the district approved Moore Elementary&#8217;s permanent closure and sale.<\/p>\n<p>In May,\u00a0the school board voted 5-4 to adopt a 2026-27 budget with a 4.2% tax increase, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/northampton-county\/northampton-area-school-district-adopts-preliminary-budget-with-4-2-tax-increase-in-5-4\/article_a30262e0-032c-4cc1-b412-0bc15ebd55f7.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">69 News reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s deficit was then recorded at $12.7 million. But $5.2 million saved through salary and staff reductions, plus $1.2 million in bond fund interest earnings and $3.5 million from the tax increase, would bring the deficit to $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Next week,\u00a0Northampton Area School District students return to their classrooms for the new school year. Some will make up the inaugural classes at the district&#8217;s brand-new elementary school, East Allen Elementary, at\u00a07200 New Seemsville Road.<\/p>\n<p>Administration offices are now located at the new Education Center located at 7250 New Seemsville Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON, Pa.- In addition to preparing for the upcoming school year, the Northampton Area School District spent the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[113712,153,155,154,20313,30212,85002,36378,7719,46140,113711,16988],"class_list":["post-269664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-administration-building","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-budget-deficit","tag-elementary-school","tag-northampton-area-school-district","tag-property-sale","tag-redistricting","tag-school-closure","tag-school-sale","tag-tax-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}