The proposal to rename the Seneca Valley Middle School after a 2000 graduate who was killed in combat in Afghanistan is advancing.

Jim Nickel, school board president, said at Monday's meeting that the board directed Superintendent Tracy Vitale to form a committee to look into the proposal to rename the school after Sgt. 1st Class Ryan Gloyer and report back at the board's voting meeting last week.

A group of students and one recent Seneca Valley graduate gave a presentation at the Jan. 23 school board meeting on why the district should rename the middle school after Gloyer, a Green Beret who was killed November 2016 while fighting enemy forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan.