Student Assignment Plan Updates
Update: here's the schedule for the district boundary meetings - there are only three and they are all less than a hour.
Thornton Creek K-5 lunchroom
Tues., Oct. 1, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
7711 43rd Ave NE
Interpreters: Chinese and Spanish
Schmitz Park Elementary lunchroom
Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
5000 SW Spokane Street
Interpreters: Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese
Seattle World School
Meany Building lunchroom
Tues., Oct. 6, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
301 21st Ave E
Interpreters: Chinese, Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese
Also, a link to the map of the look of SPS in 2020 - wow is the word that comes to mind for those high school assignments. It says it was approved in Nov 2013 and last updated 9/14/2015. If you are in PTA, I would go to my PTA/PTO leaders and ask that this be a topic of discussion.
My thoughts (just on first glance)
- you see that with this map, all high schools are fed by just one middle school (a couple of areas have a middle school and K-8). Meany has two K-8s and a middle school.
- Roosevelt is getting the exact schools I would have thought it would but they don't even extend the boundary to the freeway. Just ridiculous.
- they have Ballard right on its boundary line; also ridiculous. And having far north Green Lake feed into it? That's going to be fun to get to school. I'd like to know the easy bus route for that one.
- I'm unclear as to where people in Magnolia and Queen Anne go to high school.
- the area for Meany/Franklin is rather large but they put Garfield right on the boundary edge so it's unclear to me how that works.
Despite this being approved in 2013, I have no recollection of any map looking like this.
end of update
On past decisions on boundaries:
Proposed adjustments to approved future growth boundaries for Mercer, Washington and Meany middle schools Sept. 25, 2015 — This fall, the school board will vote on a change to the boundary changes previously approved for middle schools in the Southeast region. Previously approved boundaries moved the Kimball Elementary attendance area into the Washington Middle School attendance area and the John Muir attendance area into the Meany Middle School attendance area.
Community members requested that Kimball students continue be assigned to Mercer for middle school and these proposed changes are being made in response to that feedback.
Also, there are these maps showing boundaries changes in the coming years for all areas of the city, either due to growth or new buildings. I think it important to look at these especially if you have elementary or middle school students.
The proposed change retains the Kimball Elementary attendance area within the Mercer International Middle School attendance area and retains the John Muir Elementary attendance area within the Washington Middle School attendance area. As this is a change from the boundary adjustments approved by the School Board in 2013, a vote to amend the future growth boundaries must be taken.
Now here's the latest SPS document which is oddly dated as October 21, 2015.
I also am having a hard time comparing it with the Student Assignment plan to see exactly what has changed. Anybody? I also note that the district repeatedly mentions a "Waitlist period" and then doesn't say the length of the period or when it occurs.
Thornton Creek K-5 lunchroom
Tues., Oct. 1, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
7711 43rd Ave NE
Interpreters: Chinese and Spanish
Schmitz Park Elementary lunchroom
Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
5000 SW Spokane Street
Interpreters: Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese
Seattle World School
Meany Building lunchroom
Tues., Oct. 6, 2015, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m.
301 21st Ave E
Interpreters: Chinese, Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese
Also, a link to the map of the look of SPS in 2020 - wow is the word that comes to mind for those high school assignments. It says it was approved in Nov 2013 and last updated 9/14/2015. If you are in PTA, I would go to my PTA/PTO leaders and ask that this be a topic of discussion.
My thoughts (just on first glance)
- you see that with this map, all high schools are fed by just one middle school (a couple of areas have a middle school and K-8). Meany has two K-8s and a middle school.
- Roosevelt is getting the exact schools I would have thought it would but they don't even extend the boundary to the freeway. Just ridiculous.
- they have Ballard right on its boundary line; also ridiculous. And having far north Green Lake feed into it? That's going to be fun to get to school. I'd like to know the easy bus route for that one.
- I'm unclear as to where people in Magnolia and Queen Anne go to high school.
- the area for Meany/Franklin is rather large but they put Garfield right on the boundary edge so it's unclear to me how that works.
Despite this being approved in 2013, I have no recollection of any map looking like this.
end of update
On past decisions on boundaries:
Proposed adjustments to approved future growth boundaries for Mercer, Washington and Meany middle schools Sept. 25, 2015 — This fall, the school board will vote on a change to the boundary changes previously approved for middle schools in the Southeast region. Previously approved boundaries moved the Kimball Elementary attendance area into the Washington Middle School attendance area and the John Muir attendance area into the Meany Middle School attendance area.
Community members requested that Kimball students continue be assigned to Mercer for middle school and these proposed changes are being made in response to that feedback.
Also, there are these maps showing boundaries changes in the coming years for all areas of the city, either due to growth or new buildings. I think it important to look at these especially if you have elementary or middle school students.
The proposed change retains the Kimball Elementary attendance area within the Mercer International Middle School attendance area and retains the John Muir Elementary attendance area within the Washington Middle School attendance area. As this is a change from the boundary adjustments approved by the School Board in 2013, a vote to amend the future growth boundaries must be taken.
Now here's the latest SPS document which is oddly dated as October 21, 2015.
I also am having a hard time comparing it with the Student Assignment plan to see exactly what has changed. Anybody? I also note that the district repeatedly mentions a "Waitlist period" and then doesn't say the length of the period or when it occurs.
Comments
-Clueless
If you're not in the zone for a popular option school, do you have any real chance of getting in? I would guess not.
Some oddities just looking around (see http://sps.ss8.sharpschool.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=627&pageId=14844#option):
- Why does the Center School geozone not cover two blocks to the south but go a couple miles to the north?
- Why is Nova practically outside it's own geozone?
- Why does John Stanford's geozone have a panhandle (outside its walk zone)?
- Why does Tops' geozone extend to the Univ. bridge, but not even a couple blocks southeast of the school?
Confused
- North-end Mom
-sleeper
That's the point of the update. Last year they forgot the tiebreaker was still in place (it was meant to be transitional.)
Lincoln High School is planned to reopen in fall 2019. If the new BTA levy passes, they'll be building an addition to Ingraham and that will change the high school assignment areas too.
Confused Mom
HP
HP
There is no feeder system from middle school to high school. (Except in West Seattle for some reason.) Look at the difference between the borders for Jane Addams and Nathan Hale.
@HP, the elementary-middle feeder pattern is important for programming reasons. It's not just about geography. For example, APP elementary needs to feed to APP middle, but for high school, kids have more options. Another example is language immersion. JSIS and McDonald need to feed to the same MS to ensure a sufficient cohort size for continuation of language.
Half Full
Why is it more important to have straight lines for middle school boundaries than to keep elementary school children together with their friends as they move to middle school? I think you're underestimating how hard that would be. (Didn't your children attend a K-8 school?) Our middle schools are huge.
If these boundaries are for high schools too, then kids north of 95th will now have to take a bus to Roosevelt rather walking down the hill to Hale. Kids two blocks from Roosevelt will have to take a bus to Lincoln. The same for Ballard. Kids that could walk to Ingraham would have to bus it to Hale. None of this makes sense. Yes some elementary schools need to feed to specific middle schools but Wedgwood doesn't need to go to Eckstein.
HP
If there is a plan in the works to eventually have middle schools feed into specific high schools, then where are the kids in the McClure attendance area going to go for high school?
- North-end Mom
HP
There is nothing official stating that the 2020 middle school boundaries will become the high school boundaries. New high school boundaries were not approved as part of the Growth Boundaries Plan (2013). This is something that was inferred by one of the previous posters (Rmd).
Also, if the JAMS boundaries were changed to align with those of Nathan Hale, then there probably would not be room for all of NE APP in the Jane Addams building. Judging from the size of this year's and last year's incoming 6th grade class, the building will be at or above maximum capacity by next year.
- North-end Mom
There are no high school boundaries on that map. The September 2015 changes are a couple of tiny areas affected by the opening of Schmitz Park and Arbor Heights and the switch of Muir and Kimball middle school assignments.
There is enough to get excited about with the elementary and middle school changes. And North-end is right, JAMS can't have the same boundaries as Hale due to APP.
I wonder if the large APP cohort was part of the reason the Hale 9th grade class was smaller than anticipated and why they were allowed to take 30 off of the waitlist. I hope the gen ed kids are benefiting from the band at JAMS because Hale's band could really use some more musicians.
HP
-sleeper
Capacity Wonk
It seems as though there are more neighborhood kids being tested for APP, now that JAMS is open (APP at Hamilton was a long bus ride away). Since there is IBX at Ingraham, then perhaps more neighborhood kids are choosing Ingraham over Hale than in previous years?
- North-end Mom
Urgh.
North-end Mom
-sleeper
(Also last year the majority of JAMS APP/HCC 8th grade kids were from south of the Hale border so not slotted to go to Hale in any case. I believe that may change now for reasons North-end mom mentions, but it wouldn't have affected things for this year.)
-sleeper
Just a little irritation for me - I really try to include as much info as I can and it bothers me when readers don't read the entire thread and then post a link to something that is there.
Skim if you must but you will miss information.
sleeper
-North-end Mom
Seattle School District
Elementary and Middle School Attendance Areas
I don't see actual HS boundaries on this map???
Your question about where does QA/Magnolia go to high school remains. There are some other big ones too. Like Garfield and Franklin. Like the future of the HCC to Garfield and Ingraham pattern. (My money is on that disappearing by 2020.) Like what to do with still-underenrolled Rainier Beach. Like needing more new facilities beyond Lincoln. The map to which you linked takes none of that into account nor does it appear to be an indicator of high school enrollment patterns.
Capacity Wonk
-sleeper
- North-end Mom
But no, address is not the sole factor.
Again, I can only say - speak now or the district will make ALL the decisions.
As for QA/Magnolia, Kellie LaRue and I have been singing this song a long time - so much of what drives capacity in this district comes from the single mistake of selling off Queen Anne high school property and then the district NEVER truly addressing it.
I believe Cascadia is the K-5 HCC elementary, correct?
And Licton Springs K-8 is the former AS1/Pinehurst?
So the Eaglestaff school is an attendance area 6-8 middle school then? I am unsure.
Thanks in advance for your help.
-sleeper
Yes, the lack of QA/Magnolia high school is huge. So are other things. Such as lack of cohesive academic programming in this district. The failure to solicit funding for more capital improvements long long ago. The denial of staff to this day that high school capacity will be at emergency status shortly. The lack of planning between Metro and the district. Surely you can add more.
I expect the central and nearer north slice of that map to be in assignment flux. Lincoln. Ballard. Roosevelt. Garfield. Franklin. Families are in for nasty, nasty surprises. As you point out, unless parents start demanding enrollment projections tied to initial district plans as to enrollment patterns and/or other solutions such as dual schedules, there will be high school chaos in short order. As you say, the warning bell keeps ringing, but the only people who can force the district into better planning are parents on the uprise.
Do not be lulled by that linked map.
Capacity Wonk
HIMSmom
-whiplash
And for high school I am sure the plan would be to put an HCC cohort at whichever school is the least overfull. That has previously been Ingraham, but who knows by 2019. Maybe Lincoln, because that has previously been popular(with the district, not the families), to use HCC to start a new school.
-sleeper
Also, am I missing what the Y's and M's mean all over the map?
elementary parent
"Neighborhood" elementary and middle schools are also called "attendance area" schools.
Instead of attendance areas, option schools have transportation zones and geo-zones for preferential enrollment.
Although there is supposedly a feeder pattern from elementary to middle schools, Current high school attendance area boundaries are "geographic," in that they don't necessarily align with middle or elementary school boundaries.
A bizarre outcome of the growth boundaries work is that some current elementary school boundaries do not necessarily align with the current middle school boundaries (take a look at the JAMS boundaries -vs- those of its feeder schools). The JAMS boundary is really more of a geographic boundary, as it is not defined by its "feeder" elementary school boundaries. It is all very confusing, and does not make much sense.
- North-end Mom
Elementary and Middle School Attendance Areas. I don't see high school in that list. Yes the high schools are on the map, but the attendance areas all refer to middle schools.
Alt learning at Hale? Why do you consider Hale alt learning? Ingraham IB has become more popular but not Ingraham gen ed from what I have heard. I am still puzzled by the miscalculation of the freshman class at Hale but happy that Hale was allowed to let in so many off the waitlist. The kids I have heard from who choose elsewhere for high school either wanted IB (Ingraham), went to Shorecrest or went to Roosevelt with their friends from Eckstein.
HP
-sleeper
Wasn't there a feeder pattern tiebreaker for middle school? Was that in effect for 2015-16, or just 2014-15 (when JAMS opened)?
I notice it is not in the doc Melissa linked to this post
- North-end Mom
The site will have two buildings although you could call it "three schools".
One building will be Cascadia Elem (yes, crappy name) and have 1-5 HCC cohort currently in long-term temporary situation in Lincoln. That building is scheduled to be a 650 kid elem, and there are more than 650 kids in that school in Lincoln now, so good luck. And does anyone have an elem. school with 100 seats for the rest of the kids? Bueller? (FYI last I heard the elem. is only being designed for 3 portables -)
The second building is named after Robert Eaglestaff. It will house two "schools" in the building: one is supposed to be the K8 Licton Springs (formerly Pinehurst/AS1). Much revamping of the "E shapped" design, at some expense, is being done to house this school separately within what was envisioned as only a large comprehensive middle school.
The remainder of the Eaglestaff building will be used for a comprehensive 6-8. There are many statements from many sources about who will be in that school. It will undoubtedly include some or all of the HCC kids currently in Hamilton, as they will be pushed out b/c the numbers are still growing at HIMS. Since HIMS is the only middle school in the north that cannot locate portables, the only choice when it gets overly crowded is to relocate students either through feeder pattern changes (ie, Laurelhurst elem feed to Eckstein) or moving out HCC.
I suspect the district will decide the spring before it opens whether all the HIMS HCC will be pulled out, with a small geographic attendance area around Eaglestaff, or only part of the HCC kids from HIMS, with a somewhat larger geo zone around Eaglestaff. HCC parents should keep an eye on that issue, because dicing the middle school program into smaller pieces divides up the institutional knowledge and consistency of "curriculum" (ha!).
The site will also have, FYI, the football practice field and sports facilities for Lincoln High school. Yes, the high schoolers at Lincoln will be driving up to the Cascadia/Eaglestaff site just as the elem and MS kids are leaving.
While I have no inside info, logic and experience make me believe the district will put north end HCC high school pathway right back into Lincoln so that they can 1) populate the school quickly ... see HIMS reopening, JAMS, etc; 2) relieve Garfield; and 3) draw a smaller geo zone around Lincoln, thus not angering as many Roosevelt and Ballard area people. So the HCC kids there now might as well choose their lockers for high school too...
-- math counts
Some might consider Hale an alternative school due to the school's use of 9th grade academies and inclusive rather than separate honors and AP classes.
-sleeper
Weird, I never thought of Hale as alternative but maybe that is because my kids went to Waldorf for K-8. Hale's appeal was the smaller size and the academies for 9th grade. Seemed like a good way to make friends and have a school within a school. Doesn't Ballard do something similar with academies? Is it alternative? Isn't there a school down south, not Cleveland, that has academies also? Is Roosevelt then the only traditional high school?
HP
And, in fact, every sophomore at Roosevelt takes an AP class that year.
I imagine most SPS high school options would seem pretty traditional compared to a Waldorf school, and I also think Roosevelt is very traditional, on the traditional ---> alternative spectrum. But no, not the only traditional school.
I imagine most SPS high school options would seem pretty traditional compared to a Waldorf school, and I also think Roosevelt is very traditional, on the traditional ---> alternative spectrum. But no, not the only traditional school.
-sleeper
Anyway, it doesn't look like the borders for high schools have been studied yet.
HP
The new building at the Thornton Creek site was originally planned to be a new attendance area/assignment school. Due to pressure from those living near the Decatur/Thornton Creek site, it was decided that Cedar Park would open as an assignment school in 2017, instead of opening an attendance area school in the new Thornton Creek building.
The Cedar Park building is very, very, small, it does not have a library, and it is landmarked. To make up the loss of assignment seats that would have been at Decatur/Thornton Creek, SPS set a targeted enrollment of 400 for Cedar Park, and dropped 8 portables there. The highest poverty areas of the John Rogers and Olympic Hills attendance areas will be re-assigned to Cedar Park when it opens as an attendance area school in 2017.
- North-end Mom
There are two separate buildings on opposite ends of the 18 acres. The architects, Mahlum, did a TERRIBLE job laying out the buildings. They sprawl and create wasted courtyard space that no child will be allowed to play in because it will creaate noise for the classes in session, or, will break windows if the soccer ball goes astray. The community pushed back, but, they were absolutely resolute and not sympathetic to the security and management challenges the site posed (2000 students, local crime, security concerns, managing student safety with no budget for recess supervision, etc).
On the west edge, there is a comprehensive middle school, recently named Eaglestaff. Initially, staff's plan was to switch APP/HCC out of Hamilton (because there will be no room at Hamilton for a non-geographic kids because Wallingford is so FULL of kids), and split APP between 2 new schools: JAMS and Eaglestaff. That plan created the minimum of disruption to all other neighborhoods *and* preserved program service integrity. Common sense. So, enter Director Peaslee. She insisted staff create a plan where the neighborhood schools were pushed out of their traditional neighborhood feeding patterns. That was totally nutty, and done without community input or prodding, and universally was enraging, so staff scrambled to make a 3rd plan which pretended that Hamilton *might* have some APP, but that the rest would land at Eaglestaff. This is nested and hidden in a table, staff can switch all APP out of Hamilton to Eaglestaff, which is what will happen, just like staff originally did during growth boundaries, because Hamilton is once about far beyond capacity, and, the grades coming into it are even larger. Except now, no one is talking about it, so people will be caught off guard when it happens, and therefore upset. Eaglestaff is also the assigned comprehensive middle school to students who live in the attendance areas of Broadview Thompson k-8 (that is an assignment k5 but an optional 6-8), Northgate, Olympic View, and Bagely. Again, this feeder pattern is already locked in by the Board. And, at the last minute, Pinehurst lost their building due to Hazel Wolf taking it and pushing them out because they rejected Cedar Park as too small (it was awful listening to them say how Pinehurst were not wanted and that was confirmed by a vote by their BLT). So, Eaglestaff, which was always programmed to house the Indian Heritage middle school program (which at the time had zero students enrolled), at then last minute, got pushed in Pinehurst, got them too. BUT Pinehurst is now no longer a school, it is a program, and as such, it can be sited anywhere without Board approval. It has about 100 kids in it now, it has not grown, it has shrunk. The program is now called Licton Springs, and they are very excited to be a K8 inside of a 1,000 seat comprehensive middle school. But, realistically, time will tell if there will be enough elementary school parents willing to send their kids to a school with 1000+ students, 900 of who are middle schoolers, on a campus of 2,000. Plus, there seems to be a blank check to outfit Eaglestaff for elementary kids, which is upsetting as there is no auditorium, because there was no money for that 'extra' (which is not an extra!), yet there is no budget limit to all the changes they are making for this. Nobody is reigning this in. Scope creep like crazy. All on the down low.
Facilities Planning
The other school at Wilson Pacific is an elementary school, Cascadia, on the eastern edge. Cascadia already exists, there are 750 kids who have been parked in Lincoln for 6 years, who have had to wait longer for their building than any other school community ever. They will all fit, despite the chatter, with some portables. Just like every other elementary in the north, they will have portables. So what. All elementaries have had capacity challenges that they suck up. Schools have cannibalized their music rooms, art rooms, etc. Not ideal. But, Cascadia will be no different. Anyone who says you can't fit 800 students into a building built for 660 fails to understand that the 660 is just a imaginary load and doesn't count pull out spaces or even fully loading a class from 26 to 30 or 31 (which is mostly due to budget for FTE teachers, not due to lack of homerooms, by the way). Think of it this way, 28 homerooms x 5 extra students per room yields 140 students fit into existing rooms.
Cascadia moving into Cascadia will free up the Lincoln building to become a high school and will save all other families from dreaded boundary redraws, which split siblings, cleave neighborhoods, and cause major angst. Like a unicorn, Dr. Herndon has magical thinking that says you can just split off small chunks and insert them where ever. Putting 90 kids in anywhere would trigger a boundary redraw. And any boundary redraw would trigger a neighboring boundary redraw. Boundaries would all fall down like dominoes. And this district does not have the bandwidth to do growth boundaries 2.0. Besides, you can't just insert 90 HCC students into any other buildings, because there is no space in any other building.
Just hope that they finish Eaglestaff and Cascadia on time.
Facilities Planning
The 'left over building' at Thornton Creek can only hold 194. It won't be able to take portables because of the new building on the same site. It was originally proposed to be turn down. Swear! The district 'promised' they would. Then, they made it vague, like, they weren't sure. Then they said they are not going to (Duh! bait an switch, again)... They were planning to put in a preschool there, which would not mess up the large school that will be there. The building is in very poor condition. The bathroom is gross. It should be held as an 'emergency site' only, in case some other school gets burnt down. Like Coe experienced. Because Marshall building will be holding Loyal Heights and Lincoln is full and will be a high school. There will be no other space at all anywhere. The district needs to lease space. It has come to that.
The distance tie breaker. Originally, from the old Student Assignment Plan. Made sense in the old plan. Then comes along the New Student Assignment Plan, and magically, everyone was suppose to fit into their assignment school. Ha-ha. Whoops. The NSAP orignially had the distance tie breaker sunsetting, and finally altogether gone. Then, along comes Peaslee. She wants it brought back. Dr. Libros couldn't take it. She retired. Anyway, they resserect it. Bravo. Then they realize that is a mistake to resserect it. But too late, because they already agreed to do it. And on top of that, staff failed to implement, or reimplement it, properly. Whoops. Again. Anybody suprised?
So, it exists, but, it was only going to be temporary. So, even if they did do it correctly for this round, next September it was suppose to get gone. Again.
They decided they made a mistake in bringing this back when the intent and the mechanics of the NSAP was the exact opposite, because the Board realized (eventually) that the entire thrust of the NSAP was to eliminate buses. The NSAP's purpose was to incentize everyone to go to their neighbourhood schools so that the number of buses got cut way down, because Olympia was breathing down their neck due to 'school choice' creating a too many buses (Preschool, Special Ed, ELL, Gifted, and, Homeless student buses are covered under a different budget, those were not the problem!)
And, from an equity point of view, why should not a student who wants Nova or a Language Immersion school be as entitled to a shot at it as a student who lives close but not in the geozone?
Really, not sure if this is entertaining or some kind of candid camera prank.
SPS Follies
--Wedgie Dad
There is no reason to assume staff have begun discussions of high school boundaries.
HF
Yes, the incoming grades are larger, but they are also heavily HCC. Even after Eagle Staff opens, there's not going to be enough excess capacity for schools to be anything other than full. It seems like pulling all of HCC out of Hamilton would leave HIMS underpopulated, since it's currently about half HCC. If you yank 550 kids and send them to Eagle Staff, wouldn't HIMS have excess capacity for a few years (unless the district relocates something else there)? It also means there wouldn't be much room for neighborhood kids in the new Eagle Staff building, and I thought SPS promised the neighborhood access during the approval process (for whatever that's worth). The HCC NW middle school cohort (or whatever they're calling it) will probably be 600-700 by then. A split seems more likely to me.
-LivingonEARTH
- Please, it IS Eagle Staff (two words). This was made known to the district's by Eagle Staff's family.
- Living on EARTH (and everyone else) - You need to heed the teachers strike. No, not what the teachers did but what the PARENTS did. They organized in every single corner of this city. That means that it IS possible for parents to organize.
Parents, you raise a lot of money for this district. You work to support school levies. Flex - that - muscle with the district. Rise up in numbers and you will be surprised at what you can get.
But it rarely happens but that doesn't mean it can't happen.
The Growth Boundaries work was for current and future schools with some combination of Grades K through 8 only. it explicitly did not include high schools.
Here is a link to the current high school attendance boundary map.
http://sps.ss8.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/Enrollment%20Planning/Maps/boundarymaps/pdfs/SD_HS.pdf
Obviously, the opening of Lincoln (1.600 seats) and (if placed in a levy by the Board and funding approved by the electorate) a 500-seat addition at Ingraham and a 1,600-seat comprehensive high school on the SPS property at Seattle Center wlll result in significant revision to the current boundaries.
Thanks! I appreciate it when you post here.
Melissa: I'm confused. You stated to me - explicitly, and not long ago - that you were behind this proposal 100%.
In any event the seats are needed starting in 2021 or so (based on Enrollment Planning's #s; it goes w/o saying they could be used earlier than that). So this most likely will be a part of the BEX V program.
To all: The general setup would be something like Union City (NJ) High School. SPS has a bigger site - 9+ acres, compared to about 4 1/2 for UCHS - and our comprehensive high schools are about 225,000 SF compared to about 350,000 SF at UCHS. That means more layout and design flexibility, at a minimum.
I took a bunch of photos ... for now, here's a good aerial shot of UCHS.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joebehr/21849443405/
I'd love to see this actually happen ... and it would solve what Melissa has ID'd as the biggest driver of high school enrollment issues ... no HS for QA/Magnolia.
northwesterner
HIMSmom
I would rather folks contact them directly for data they develop.
HP
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joebehr/albums/72157659353417341
http://bta.seattleschools.org/assets/Uploads/documents/SPS-2020-Projections-Mar-2015.pdf
Are their any new projections by middle school service area, broken down by grade level? The District-wide projection, while it shows continued growth, is not very informative, since growth tends to be uneven.
Thanks.
- North-end Mom
- North-end Mom
HIMSmom
Have you made a public records request? I'd try that.
Surprisingly, at one point they were somewhat apologetic and tried to explain how "complicated" it all is, because there are so many factors and assumptions that go into the projections (e.g., boundary changes, new school sites, program enrollment growth). I pointed out that developing updated projections would seem to be an essential step in actually making those important decisions over the next few years. Isn't that the point of the enrollment projections?
HIMSmom