Elyria Schools voted this morning at a special board meeting to sell Erie Elementary School to Education Alternatives for $612,000.

Education Alternatives already rents Edison Elementary School.

Erie Elementary is at 33 Naples Drive and was closed by the district at the end of the 2008-09 school year. It went up for auction earlier this month after the decision was made by the district to unload four closed schools from its real estate portfolio. Erie, Roosevelt, Edison and Eastgate schools all were offered for sale.

A Gates Mills couple who first tried to buy Erie at the public auction only to have board members unanimously reject the offer had sued the school district to stop the sale of the building to another buyer.