The Kanawha County Board of Education is moving toward closing Cedar Grove Middle School in Eastern Kanawha. The Gazette-Mail reported closing the school is part of the school system’s move to drop from nearly 70 schools to about 60 over the next decade. Closing Cedar Grove Middle School will be a slow process. The board voted unanimously last week to request that the West Virginia School Building Authority fund renovations and additions to Cedar Grove Elementary, which shares a building with the middle school. The work would include tearing down the middle school portion of the building, and the middle-schoolers would be transferred to DuPont Middle. The middle school closure will happen only if the SBA’s board grants the money when it meets this spring.