ST. CHARLES – When consistently low test scores gave parents the option to transfer their children from Richmond Elementary School to another St. Charles school, more than 80 took that opportunity in recent years.

When only one child left Richmond in its second year as an intermediate school serving grades 3-5, district administrator Becky McCabe said she viewed it as a “real positive.”

The decline, she said, speaks highly of how the community is feeling a year and a half into the new Richmond Intermediate and Davis Primary configuration.