JAY — A session to create a vision statement for a combined Spruce Mountain High School campus is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the school in Jay.

At 6 p.m. an open house will give parents a chance to meet with staff members of both campuses in Jay and Livermore Falls. Teachers from each department or curriculum area will share information with parents about their class and its curriculum.

The high schools’ Leadership Team has been meeting for more than a year to try to shape the new combined high school, which is expected to be operational at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.

The Jay School Department and RSU 36 in Livermore Falls and Livermore merged in 2011.

“The Leadership Team will use the information to develop a meaningful vision,” Gilbert Eaton, principal at the Jay campus, said.

Parents, students, businesspeople and other community members are encouraged to attend the forum.

Eaton said questions to be answered include:

* What is this new school going to do for the students, for the community?

* What do they think the new high school should develop in students and within the community?

“We want as many perspectives as we can get so the vision statement will reflect what the community values will do for the kids,” Eaton said.

After the data is analyzed, the Leadership Team will present it and a possible vision to the school board

Once the students from the two high schools come together, Eaton estimated enrollment will be just over 500 in grades nine to 12. Each high school will hold its own graduation ceremony in June 2013, but that will likely be the final one.