Double Shifting Over in Lake Washington School District
From KIRO tv:
Eastlake is one of two high schools in the Lake Washington district that will soon be over capacity by hundreds of students. In 2012, Redmond High School will have about 500 kids more than they have room for. Eastlake High will have 340 too many.The Lake Washington School District said it may not have a choice but to split Eastlake and Redmond high schools into two school days each, a format called double shifting.One shift would start about 6:30 a.m. and the other at around 12:30 p.m.
I had to do this in junior high while a new building was being built. It was a little weird but I was grateful I had the late shift.
From the story:
Double shifting is the least expensive option, but the district could bring in more money with a new tax levy. Depending on its size, the money could be used for new portables, permanent classrooms or even a new school.
We should have some new numbers for our own district very soon.
Eastlake is one of two high schools in the Lake Washington district that will soon be over capacity by hundreds of students. In 2012, Redmond High School will have about 500 kids more than they have room for. Eastlake High will have 340 too many.The Lake Washington School District said it may not have a choice but to split Eastlake and Redmond high schools into two school days each, a format called double shifting.One shift would start about 6:30 a.m. and the other at around 12:30 p.m.
I had to do this in junior high while a new building was being built. It was a little weird but I was grateful I had the late shift.
From the story:
Double shifting is the least expensive option, but the district could bring in more money with a new tax levy. Depending on its size, the money could be used for new portables, permanent classrooms or even a new school.
We should have some new numbers for our own district very soon.
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http://www.seattleschools.org/area/siso/enroll/2010/p223.xml
-- District Watcher
signed West Seattle (google account wouldn't accept my password.)
Conversely as a senior -- I started at 7:15am and was out around 12:00 noon.
Bryant has 120 Kindergarteners?
Hale's 9th grade class is larger this year than it has been in years past. They have 334 9th grade students this year. They have 283 10th grade students, and 229 11th grade students. They are growing. Not sure if this was an unintentional consequence of the NSAP, or if it was intentional to grow the school to meet the capacity of their new building which will hold 1400 when complete?
Eckstein has a much larger 6 grade class than they had in years past. They have 458 6th grade students this year! If they continue to enroll 458 kids per grade, per year, for the next two years the building will have 1374 students enrolled.
Nova only has 196 students enrolled, total for all grades. This number is low isn't it? Odd, they only show 3 students enrolled in 11th grade, and none enrolled in 12th grade. Is this a mistake or type? Charlie???
RBHS, sadly has only 379 students enrolled, total for all grades. But at least the 9th grade class has grown a tad. They have 114 9th grade students, 96 10th grade students, and 78 11th grade students.
Cleveland has a larger 9th grade class than it has in the past few years. They have 232 9th grade students enrolled, 206 10th grade students, 155 11th grade students, and 118 12th grade students.
Functional cap VS. current enrollment
1091 enrolled/1229 functional capacity (rebuild is not complete yet) Hale
1274 functional cap/943 enrolled Ingraham
928 functional cap/711 enrolled STEM
1447 functional cap/1279 enrolled Franklin
1016 functional cap/379 enrolled RBHS
1180 functional capacity/1015 enrolled Sealth
1099 functional capacity/996 enrolled W. Seattle
And I'm not at all sure what's going on at NOVA with only 196 kids enrolled. They used to serve about 90 students per grade or 360 total
http://www.seattleschools.org
/area/capacity/functional_an
alysis3.pdf
Peter Maier, MGJ and CAO were talking 1000 at 250 per grade level in 2015 as the goal?
The original plan was to limit the numbers for this year to 250 in 9th and 250 in 10th.
They each said this at Cleveland Saturday Open house before the first NTN vote happened on 2/3/10.
I'm not sure what's up with this version of the district's info, but Nova is at +/- 340, including plenty of juniors and seniors.
Consider South to North.
Totals
RBHS 379
Franklin 1279
Garfield 1744
Frosh
RBHS 114
Franklin 438
Garfield 545
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Pretty Clear that lines need to move north.
Or will that just have everyone find new residences further north?
No political courage to draw appropriately sized boundary areas is my guess.
If one votes for a plan, then please display the courage to properly execute what you voted to approve.
The seemingly never ending disaster produced by those elected in 2007 rolls on.
Look at the profusion of 4-3 and 4-2 votes accumulating where Maier, Sundquist, Martin-Morris, and Carr are the four. Just goes to show what kind of results accrue from $480,000 in campaign spending .... all hail the victors.
Does anyone know when they'll start moving/displacing staff from schools who've not met projected enrollment to the schools that under projected their enrollment?
Can you explain this more? Why is this never "great"?
I think it would be fantastic if schools weren't filled to "capacity". Chief Sealth, for instance, has enough students enrolled to offer a good course mixture without being overcrowded and unmanageable.
If "capacity" is 35 kids per classroom, but we only had 20 kids per classroom, that would be great in my opinion. Of course, SPS would probably cram them in 30-35 at a time and leave the rest of the rooms empty.
Once upon a time life was good and the schools were fine out here in West Seattle, but that was long ago in an administration far away.
Talk about mismanagement and making over subscribed schools even more imbalanced..... go visit Meg's crappy charts on NSAP.
Judge Inveen where is your NSAP appeal ruling?
And I thought 31 students per class was bad! This is so pathetic, and so avoidable.
I agree with you though wsnorth about not needing to cram kids into our high schools (or elementary and Middle school for that matter). I wish we could have classes of 20 students, but that will never happen in this district.
Hale tried to keep their enrollment to about 1050 for years, but now with the remodel the building will hold 1400 and I'd expect that Hale's enrollment will grow. To me Hale seems perfectly efficient with plenty of offerings as it is. But a bit of growth might be good too. Maybe with the addition of more students there will be a stronger band and orchestra, more AP classes, the addition of self contained honors classes, maybe another foreign language class, all things Hale could use.
I see Hale's 9th grade enrollment numbers seem to be up, though. You also also got our great principal from Madison in West Seattle, Dr. Hudson. I think she's great.
anyone know how many K classes at Schmitz, Alki and Lafayette or where that would be published?
And yes we love Dr. Hudson. Hale really lucked out to get her. It must have been a great loss to Madison to lose her.
We also got two new assistant principals this year, one from RBHS. Haven't met them yet, so no opinions to share at this point.
Sorry to hear of the dire situation in West Seattle. Believe me the NE is not all roses and rainbows. We have, and continue to suffer with severe over crowding in almost every one of elementary schools, and Eckstein is the largest middle school in the entire state. Over 1200 kids and many many old dilapidated portables.
signed,
yumpears
I figure the 2015 over-under line at 634 students.
Thoughts on enrollment and likely recall action also included.
Don't get me wrong, I'm for anything that isn't EDM, but if these schools are "experiments" for waivers, it's a shame there wasn't a better control with equality in class sizes.
Ingram is being rebuilt and they are severely under enrolled. In fact they have almost 340 seats vacant this year, before their rebuild which will add even more capacity. And wasn't Sealth just renovated? They are currently under enrolled to the tune of about 150 students. And Cleveland is in it's new, large, building, and has more than 200 vacant seats.
Personally I don't mind having some vacant seats in our high schools. Schools only get funded for enough teachers to accommodate the # of students enrolled, so it's really not that big of a deal if schools have some wiggle room.
I think the bigger problem is that while some schools are under enrolled, other schools are way over capacity. It's blazingly obvious that the schools that are over enrolled (Ballard, Roosevelt, and Garfield) are all similar in that they all offer a wide array of AP classes, they all offer honors classes, two have very have strong music programs, they all have high test scores, low drop out rates, and a high percent of college bound students. That is obviously what many people want. If I were in charge of this district I'd be listening.
If you were listening, my guess is you would not be in charge. Given recent trends. :)
The key to SPS leadership this year will likely be communication.
The Seattle school district seems to have a new philosophy pushing "communication" --they are, in a timely manner, putting out a lot of non-information.
Ingraham is being "rebuilt" in a piecemeal fashion and sadly, like Sealth and RBHS, will likely never see a full remodel. So I wouldn't say Ingraham has or will be "rebuilt". It has had a lot of work.
That Cleveland is in a brand new building and has been severely underenrolled has been a big issue for the district. STEM was placed there for precisely that reason. If RBHS had the newer building, it would have been put there.
Puzzling.
Otherwise, the only possibility I can think of it that (like Garfield) they may have just been really really late in hiring teachers for classes. Not sure why that happened.
I know that Eckstein was forced to lay off teachers in the spring based on projected numbers and are anticipating hiring in the same subjects in October.
Does anyone know if there is a district "standard" on this? Does it vary from Elementary to Middle to High?
Some schools in West Seattle are packed to 30 per classroom, while others that had wait lists only ended up with mid twenties in some classrooms.
Schools that are filled to the 30 and beyond levels are over-full because they must accept students in the assignment area by policy. Waitlists are always composed of students NOT in the assignment area. Therefore, schools at "capacity" will not move their waitlists. An elementary school with all classrooms in the mid-twentites is going to be at "capacity", even if that school is a lot less crowded than some other school filled beyond the brim with assignment area kids.
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Schmitz park has 25 each in K reportedly. ( 4 classes)
( the West Seattle blog, seems to post about education more than the other community blogs)
I cannot imagine that many kids in a K class.
( or actually I can imagine it!!!!!)