The fate of two schools hangs in the balance.

The Suffolk School Board will meet on March 10 to further discuss the proposed budget and decide whether to approve the budget that calls for keeping all its schools open and giving a 1-percent pay raise for employees.

The first version of the budget proposed closing Florence Bowser and Mount Zion elementary schools to save about $1 million, and also provided for no pay increases for staff.

During a special budget meeting on March 1, the School Board decided that because the schools would receive an additional $2 million in state funding, it would try to keep the two schools open. The board also proposed offering a 1-percent raise to all staff. To fund these revisions, the school system is requesting $1.4 million more from the city than they did last year.

Also during Thursday’s 7 p.m. meeting, honor graduates from Nansemond River High School will be introduced. The students will share their career plans and their fondest school memories.

The school system will also debut its first “school video profile.” The school system will feature each school in the system through video clips during the next 22 School Board meetings. This month, Nansemond River High School will be featured.

“It validates and puts faces and feelings and dreams to the numbers of the budgets