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Board Considers Changes at Student Assignment Work Session

January 23, 2009 – A number of changes were discussed to the multi year student assignment proposal during work sessions held by the Board of Education on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23. More work sessions have been scheduled as the board continues to review the proposal and a public hearing has been set for families affected by the changes made in the work sessions.

The board has received recommended changes from the staff and has already devoted two days to reviewing the proposal that will assign students to 10 new schools during the next three years. In their discussions, they took straw votes indicating their support for changes in the proposal.

No proposed changes are final until the Board of Education’s vote scheduled for Feb. 3.

Changes corrected on the school district website prior to public release on December 20

• Nodes 277.2 and 735.0 should have been recommended for assignment to Heritage High rather than H6 High. This was a coding error when keying information prior to the December 16 board meeting.
• The year was changed for some high school moves associated with the opening of Heritage and H6 to 2010 if they were inadvertently keyed as 2009 or 2011. (This included nodes 206.0, 207.0, 218.0, 219.0, 326.0, 312.5, 322.1, 235.3, 658.0)

Changes proposed by staff after hearing public input at the Board of Education’s public hearings and considering comments submitted to the school system website:

• The year-round calendar application school for nine traditional calendar base nodes assigned to Lincoln Heights and Holly Ridge should be changed from Holly Grove Elementary to the new Herbert Akins Elementary. Herbert Akins will provide more capacity for applicants and this should help prevent overcrowding at Holly Grove. Holly Grove currently serves 91 year-round calendar applicants.
• Change the year for moves from lacy Elementary to Root Elementary from 2010 to 2009. This will prevent the loss of staff in 2009 who will be needed if the reassignment is implemented.
• Change the year for moves from Panther Creek to Cary High School originally designated for 2010 to 2009. (The December 16 recommendations spread the reassignment from Panther Creek to Cary over two years.) This will provide more immediate utilization of available capacity at Cary High and has been requested by some of the potentially impacted families but will lead to the loss of some additional staff from Panther Creek when the enrollment is reduced.
• Change the year for the reassignment of node 658.0 from Green Hope High to Cary High from 2010 to 2009. There is no need to delay the reassignment until 2011. This move should align with other moves into Cary High. (Correction 1/27/09 at 3:45 p.m.)
• Change the year for the reassignment of nodes 441.1, 441.2, 441.3, 441.4, 442.1, 442.2, 442.3 and 446.0 from Carnage to Dillard Middle from 2010 to 2009. This should help prevent a one year decrease in staffing at Dillard Middle.
• Leave nodes 580.0, 579.0 and 7.0 at Athens Drive rather than reassign them to Cary High School. This impacts less than ten students and not all Reedy Creek Middle nodes can be accommodated at Cary High.
• Leave nodes 161.0 and 231.0 at Forestville Elementary rather than reassigning them to Lockhart Elementary.  There appears to be sufficient capacity at Forestville and Lockhart does not need additional students because of anticipated growth.  Leave the YR designation for these nodes at Jones Dairy rather then switching it to Lockhart.
• Leave Forestville as the designated Traditional Calendar application school for Barwell Road’s base area rather than changing the traditional calendar application designation to Creech Road.
• Leave 322.1 and 338.1 at Jeffreys Grove Elementary rather than reassigning those nodes to Baileywick Elementary.  This impacts only fourteen students, would have minimal impact on either school and the bus would still need to egress onto Creedmoor Road.
• Leave nodes 497.2 and 497.3 at Smith Elementary rather than reassigning those nodes to Middle Creek Elementary.  Leave the YR application designation for those nodes at Timber Drive.  This will allow more room to accommodate potentially rapid growth in the Middle Creek area but does reduce the percentage of students from low-income families at Middle Creek.  Smith can retain these nodes as it develops its magnet program.
• Leave node 448.1 at Middle Creek Elementary rather than assigning it to the new Banks Road Elementary.  Maintain the traditional calendar option for this node at Swift Creek.  More than 60% of the elementary students in this node come from low-income families and 14% are LEP.  This will help the comparability of Middle Creek and neighboring schools.  Keep the middle school assignment for 448.1 at West Lake Middle rather than changing it to Holly Grove Middle. (Holly Grove Middle is the recommended middle school assignment for most of the Banks Road Elementary nodes).
• Change the traditional calendar application school for nodes assigned to Vance Elementary and West Lake Elementary to Vandora Springs Elementary (from Smith Elementary) in 2011.  This is a change from the December 16th recommendation of Aversboro and provides better balance and availability of traditional calendar seats in the Garner area.
• Leave node 743.0 at Garner High School than reassigning it to Middle Creek High.  Change the middle school assignment from North Garner Middle to East Garner Middle rather than reassigning it to West Lake Middle.  These changes for this node will eliminate a split of a neighborhood and will impact fewer than ten students.

Changes Made by the Board of Education to the December Reassignment Proposal
January 22, 2009

• Recommends same grandfathering policy for Green Hope Elementary as Baucom/Turner Creek because of calendar change.  Student would have had to attend Turner Creek or Morrisville.  Both schools can move forward with this change in 2009-10.

Changes Made by the Board of Education to the December Reassignment Proposal
January 23, 2009

• Leave node 106.0 at Lacy Elementary; all reassignments from Lacy occur in 2009
• Change the traditional application school for Durant Elementary to Lead Mine in 2009.
• Change middle school assignment of two nodes (161.0 and 231.0) we had dropped from Lockhart Elementary and kept at Forestville Road Elementary; leave these nodes at Wendell Middle.
• Leave Brier Creek’s traditional option at Reedy Creek
• Leave node 94 at Conn Elementary instead of assigning it to Underwood
• Move node line to include the two children at Willow Springs who can walk to school and leave them at Willow Springs Elementary
• Pull Daniels Middle to East Cary Middle moves from the plan
• Nodes 381.4, 381.5, 381.6, 381.8 Davis Drive Middle to Salem Middle – move in 2011
• Leave 657.1 and 657.2 at West Cary Middle (Correcting article 2/2/09, 1 p.m.)
• The Board of Education has decided to leave nodes 448.2 and 448.3 at West Lake Middle School rather than reassign them to Holly Grove Middle School.  Nodes 461.3 and 461.4 remain in the proposed reassignment proposal to attend Holly Grove Middle School. (Correcting article 1/26/09 at 12:30 p.m.)
  
• Move node 72 from Moore Square Middle to Martin, not to Carroll
• Nodes 233.4, 233.5 (proposed to be assigned to Riverbend Elem), node 233.1 (proposed to be assigned to N Forest Pines Elem), and nodes 588.1, 588.2, 588.3 (proposed to be assigned to Wakefield Elem) will all stay assigned to Fox Road Elem.  Nodes 234.1 and 234.5 are proposed to be reassigned from Fox Road to Wakefield Elementary. (Added to article 1/26/09 at 9:30 a.m.)
  

Changes Made by the Board of Education to the December Reassignment Proposal
January 26, 2009
(Added to article 1/26/09 at 5:55 p.m.)

• Leave nodes 383.3 and 384.4 at Apex High, rather than assign them to Athens Drive High
• Move node 67.0 from Sanderson High to Enloe High, rather than to Athens Drive High; move node 67.0 to Wiley Elementary from Oak Grove Elementary; keep the middle school; leave the assignment for node 67.0 at Ligon Middle, rather than assign it to Dillard Middle
• Leave nodes 446.0 and 447.2 at Middle Creek High, rather than assign them to Athens Drive High School
• Leave nodes 141.1, 141.2, and 142.0 at Broughton High, instead of assigning them to Green Hope High School
• Leave nodes 206.0, 207.0, 218.0, and 219.0 at East Wake High, rather than assign them to Wake Forest-Rolesville High
• Move node 488.0 from Middle Creek High to Garner High, instead of moving it to Fuquay- Varina High; Move node 488.0 from East Garner Middle to North Garner Middle, rather than to Fuquay-Varina Middle
• Move node 369.3 from Cary High to Panther Creek High, instead of assigning it to Green Hope High
• Assign Oak Grove Elementary as the year-round application school for nodes 67.0 and 145.0
• Split node 237.2; assign the eastern portion of the node from Hodge Road Elementary to Partnership Elementary
• All moves to Root Elementary will occur in 2009
• Reassign year-round application for nodes 275.1, 287.0, 299.1, 299.2*, 299.3, 299.4*, 299.5, 299.6, 299.7, 299.8, 299.9, 300.0, 301.2, 301.3, 699.0, 713.0, and 757.0 from Heritage Middle to Durant Middle (*Added to article 1/28/09, 12:56 p.m.)
• Reassign to year-round application for node 339.1, 339.2, and 339.3 from Durant Middle to Leesville Middle
• Reassign node 621.0 from Leesville Middle to Daniels Middle; Leesville Middle would be the year-round application school for this node

Changes Made by the Board of Education to the December Reassignment Proposal
January 28, 2009
(Added to article 1/29/09 at 4:30 p.m.)

• To move Millbrook High students from nodes 234.4, 243.1 and 243.5 to Wake Forest-Rolesville High instead of Wakefield High.
• To delay for a year from 2010 to 2011 the move of Millbrook High students to Knightdale High and an unnamed new high school referred to as H6.
• To leave node 325.0 assigned to Wakefield High and Wakefield Middle
• To assign the Shadetree lane portion of Node 18.0 to Underwood Elementary from York Elementary beginning in 2009.
• To leave nodes 232.1 and 248.3 at East Wake Middle School, rather than assign them to the new Rolesville Middle School.
• To make Daniels Middle School the traditional calendar application school for students whose base assignments are York Elementary and Leesville Middle

Changes Made by the Board of Education to the December Reassignment Proposal
February 3 , 2009
(Added to article 2/3/09 at 2:30 p.m.)

• Leave nodes 234.1 and 234.5 assigned to Fox Road Elementary

More work session time has been scheduled. The board will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28 in the board room at 3600 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. This public hearing will be for families whose assignment was changed during the Board of Education work sessions that began January 22. (Clarification added 1/27/09 at 3:45 p.m.)

Updated Feb. 3, 2009

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