And then there were three.

Three site options for a potential new grades 5-6 school will be presented to the Austin Public School board during a special meeting Monday.

The sites are the old K-Mart building, on Eighth Avenue NW, the Fellowship United Methodist Church site on Seventh Avenue SE. and a piece of property on the west side of Highway 218 directly north of the K-Mart site. There are new complications with the K-Mart site, one of the popular site suggestions among local residents. District officials learned representatives from K-Mart, who own the lease on the site through 2016, would sub-lease the property to the district.

District officials want to keep the costs of a new 5-6 school and additions to Woodson Kindergarten Center below $30 million, a benchmark set by a community task force that reviewed solutions to a projected increasing enrollment of about 300-400 students by 2014 and beteween 800-1,000 students by 2019. K-Mart representatives told Stotts they could lease the property to APS. They were supposed to give district officials a cost estimate last week, but Stotts has yet to see estimate numbers as of Friday.

The land where Fellowship United Methodist Church sits, south of Ellis Middle School and directly adjacent to the property, was brought up as a potential site at last week’s meeting. The land would already have utilities built into it and could share athletic fields with Ellis, something the district would look into to save costs. Stotts brought the site before board members last week as the board previously decided to not pursue building a school on Ellis property after teachers brought up concerns about scheduling and disaster planning. Board members allowed district officials to continue looking at the site, however.