ELKINS – Representatives from Elkins Middle School gave the Randolph County Board of Education a presentation concerning the county’s fifth-grade students moving to the school. Moving fifth-grade students to EMS was part of the Impact Statement that was approved by the BOE when it voted to close the Harman K-12 School and North Elementary in October 2025. “We are going to departmentalize, so like I did when I was a fifth-grade teacher, I had a buddy teacher,” Kittle said. Fifth-grade students at EMS will have their own bell and recess schedule, and they will share lunch with some of the school’s sixth graders. Intervention resources will also be available to fifth-grade students.