With all the excitement about the new $22 million school complex being built in Wilkes County, there's one group that's feeling left out. Due to budget restraints and state cutbacks, this year's fifthgraders won't be moving up to the new building as next year's sixthgraders.

The Wilkes County Board of Education will host a workshop Monday evening, August 11, at 6 p.m. to discuss the need to reconfigure grades within the system.

The new school complex now being built on the Tignall Highway will be able to handle only grades 7 through 12 in the middle-school/ high school complex, and board members must decide where sixthgraders will attend classes starting in the fall of 2009.

The decision most affects this year's fifth graders, who would ordinarily move up to middle school next fall. During last year's decision to go ahead with the under-funded complex, the board was forced into compromises in the number of classrooms in the new school complex to meet millions of dollars in state funding cutbacks.

Following the workshop, a called meeting is set for 7 p.m., with an Executive Session for personnel to follow.