Times Observer photo by Josh Cotton A group of Sheffield students protest at Central Office Friday morning. The Warren County School District is set to act in the months-long reconfiguration debate on Monday.

Monday is decision day.

The Warren County School District previously set June 12 as the decision that the board would make a final decision in the months-long debate over school reconfiguration.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at Central Office in Russell.

A group of Sheffield students sought to make their views clear with a protest at Central Office on Friday morning.

And that message was perfectly clear.

“SHS Matters as much as Warren, Ike and Youngsville”

“I am a person, not a number #SOS.”

“Save Our Schools”

“I am not a number, I am a student. My feelings matter.”

“Hands off my School!”

The school board has narrowed the options under consideration down to three and ranked them accordingly.

The top choice is one that would have high school students from the Sheffield attendance area take three core classes — English language arts, math, and science — at Warren Area High School every day, then return to Sheffield for the remainder of their programming. Those students would remain Sheffield Area High School students. They could participate in athletics and other activities at Sheffield.

Students who are enrolled in the Warren County Career Center would remain members of their sending school even if they spend their entire days at the Warren campus.

One of the main selling points for board members is that Sheffield students, and to a lesser degree, Warren students, would have more options for core classes.

Disadvantages identified were that Sheffield students would have longer school days or would be traveling during their advisory period — often set aside for students to work on district college and career readiness graduation requirements.

Transportation costs would also increase by $25,000 with an additional $5,000 if more mid-day runs between the schools were needed.

The second option that remains on the table is moving Sheffield’s high school students to Warren full time.

The third option on Monday’s agenda was creating a K-12 center in Youngsville.

The criteria that the board used through this process include improving the learning environment, improving student well-being, bringing class sizes in line with district targets and improving teacher workload.