2008-09 Adopted Reassignment Plan
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2008-09 Adopted Reassignment Plan - Full Plan ( 423 KB Acrobat file)
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February 5, 2008 - After months of discussion with the community on filling new schools, the Board of Education approved a growth management plan for 2008-09 at its meeting today.
The proposed plan moves 6,464 elementary school students. No middle school or high school students are affected by this plan.
The board's actions followed a lengthy community discussion that included two board work sessions and three public hearings that drew more than 170 speakers, a public comment period on a draft proposal that resulted in more than 1,500 comments and a series of three community engagement meetings held across the county last fall.
The Plan
The proposal assigns 6,464 students into 56 schools, filling three new elementary schools, relieving crowding at existing schools and meeting requirements of the newly revised student assignment policy. The new elementary schools include Laurel Park Elementary, Mills Park Elementary and Sycamore Creek Elementary.
A number of the students in the proposal are not currently enrolled in WCPSS. 1,183 in the proposal will enter school in 2008-09 as kindergartners. The proposal also addresses students moving into our community over the next year.
Enrollment increased by 6,400 students for 2007-08 and 7,500 for 2006-07. Revised enrollment projections estimate student enrollment of more than 140,000 for 2008-09. The 20th day enrollment for 2007-08 was 134,002.
Of the 6,464 students in this proposal, 1,906 could exercise the grandfathering option of staying at their current school and providing their own transportation. At today’s meeting, the board agreed to extend grandfathering without transportation to fourth and fifth graders moving to new schools, as well as students moving to existing schools. If all parents exercised the grandfathering option, the current proposal would affect 4,558 students.
The proposal provides the opportunity for 3,658 students to move to a school closer to their home. Another 967 of the students will be traveling no more than three miles farther from their node, than their previous assignment.
Work Underway On Multi Year Plan
In addition to developing a growth management plan for the 2008-09 school year, Growth and Planning staff are currently preparing preliminary plans for the 2009-10, and 2010-11 school years. This will be the first time the school system will have developed multi-year assignment plans. Plans will be based upon enrollment projections jointly developed with the Wake County Planning Department and the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) that was adopted by the Board of Education in May 2006, approved by the Board of County Commissioners in July 2006 and funded by voters in November 2006.