Community Involved in Multi-Year Assignment Process
This year, for the first time, WCPSS will provide a multi-year student assignment proposal that that promises families greater stability and predictability. The public engagement process has also been improved to provide greater public input on the process.Between 2009-11, 10 new schools will open in Wake County. The WCPSS Growth and Planning Department knows where those schools are being built and when the schools are due to open. By using new planning tools, Growth and Planning is now better able to plan student assignment more than one year in advance.
The multi-year assignment proposal will provide families increased stability, predictability and better defined feeder patterns. There will be less year-to-year uncertainty for families and proposals will seek to provide more opportunities for students to move together from elementary to middle and from middle to high school.
This assignment proposal will impact students at the elementary, middle and high school levels. The last assignment plan only included elementary students.
The process for community discussion of the proposal has also been improved this year. The Growth and Planning staff will first provide a draft proposal online for comment, and then hold community engagement meetings to discuss the draft proposal.
Growth and Planning staff hope to present the draft proposal in early November, with Community Engagement Meetings later that month.
New Schools Opening for 2009-10 and 2010-11
5 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: E23 Banks Road Year Round Elementary, E34 Lake Myra Year Round Elementary, E21 Eastern Wake area year round elementary, E27 Herbert Akins Road Year Round Elementary and E30 Alston Ridge Year Round Elementary
3 MIDDLE SCHOOLS: M6 Northeast Wake area year round middle school, M9 Holly Grove Year Round Middle School, M10 Mills Parks Year Round Middle School
2 HIGH SCHOOLS: H2 Heritage High School and H6 Eastern Wake area high school