For Your Reading Pleasure
I have not yet perused this document on School Allocations for 207-2018 but thought I would put it up for folks to see what the district is thinking.
Despite the happy victory that the levy cliff bill was passed last night by the Senate (and then onto the House for this version to be ratified), the district is still in the hole.
Something to think about.
Also of interest is the Capacity Management Task Force webpage. Here you can see many useful maps such as where portable currently are AND how many more each site can support. There are also density maps, inventory maps and attendance area maps.
As I previously reported, Facilities head, Flip Herndon, apparently had a brain freeze at last week's School Board meeting when he could not recall how many portables are at Cedar Park. This was around the discussion of trying to put not one but two City pre-Ks in a small building.
Turns out there are eight. Want to bet who will be in the building and who will not be? Hint: pre-K kids won't be in portables.
Some of these numbers are startling.
Catherine Blaine K-8 has six and could fit 8 more.
Tiny Montlake has seven and can fit no more.
Lafayette has six and could add eight more.
Boren STEM K-8 has 11 but can fit no more.
Kimball Elementary takes the cake with 12 on-site and room for 10 more.
Despite the happy victory that the levy cliff bill was passed last night by the Senate (and then onto the House for this version to be ratified), the district is still in the hole.
Something to think about.
Also of interest is the Capacity Management Task Force webpage. Here you can see many useful maps such as where portable currently are AND how many more each site can support. There are also density maps, inventory maps and attendance area maps.
As I previously reported, Facilities head, Flip Herndon, apparently had a brain freeze at last week's School Board meeting when he could not recall how many portables are at Cedar Park. This was around the discussion of trying to put not one but two City pre-Ks in a small building.
Turns out there are eight. Want to bet who will be in the building and who will not be? Hint: pre-K kids won't be in portables.
Some of these numbers are startling.
Catherine Blaine K-8 has six and could fit 8 more.
Tiny Montlake has seven and can fit no more.
Lafayette has six and could add eight more.
Boren STEM K-8 has 11 but can fit no more.
Kimball Elementary takes the cake with 12 on-site and room for 10 more.
Comments
Whitman North
On the portables map, Cedar Park is listed as having 8 portables, and no room to accommodate more.
John Rogers, just south of Cedar Park, is listed as having 5 portables with "room" for 8 more.
-North-end Mom
Whitman North, I have some other documents on enrollment that are pretty astonishing.
-Another Whitman Parent
NW parent
Unclear
-another NW parent
SPSParent
It is not adjusted for open enrollment as open enrollment continues into May and there will be another adjustment at that time.
There are a lot of weird numbers throughout this report. Schools that have had years of stable enrollment and no boundary changes, like Mountlake, are suddenly showing that they will loose 30 students. Viewridge is loosing students. Cedar Park is showing as opening with 74, but Olympic Hills and John Rogers show no lower enrollment. There are other weird results as well.
100+ is a possibility.
GFY
-sleeper
Very odd.
Both Olympic Hills and John Rogers have been steadily growing for several years now, and enrollment projections for both of those schools would probably be higher than what is projected in the Feb 28th budget if the option school at Cedar Park wasn't opening. Also, Cedar Park's transportation zone is the entire JAMS service area, so, in theory, it draws from Sacajawea and parts of Olympic View's attendance areas (in addition to John Rogers and Olympic Hills).
-North-end Mom
There are a wide variety of enrollment projections that frankly seem implausible. Said another way, if they are accurate, then there should be some greater support from downtown.
As nearly everyone on this blog knows by now, high school enrollment is expected to increase greatly in both 2017 and 2018 before Lincoln opens in 2019.
But yet, Center School is projected to decrease in enrollment. I would have expected to see a sharp increase in Center's enrollment simply based on Ballard's crowding and the near certainty that all of Queen Anne will be geo-split to Lincoln. For Queen Anne families, Center is both close to home and would not be part of any geo-split.
another Northwest- Depending upon where they live in Ballard, they will be moved from Ballard as well if Ballard is not their reference school when Lincoln opens. I also assume you mean Ballard HCC families.
-a third NW
The high school numbers are given three ways on the data sheets.
1) total headcount
2) AAFTE - an deplorable practice by the State of Washington designed to fund high school on AVERAGE attendance, not headcount. In theory this is supposed to incentivize districts about drop out rates but in practice it takes about 5% out of the high school budget. The logic is bizarre and goes something like this .... we know some students don't attend or drop out, therefore we will only pay for teachers as if these students never attended at all.
3) Adjusted for contact time - This is a practice where general education teachers are subtracted because in theory students are in Sped or ELL or somewhere else. Honestly, this one is murky to me and if anyone has a better explanation, that would be helpful.
Does anyone know if the Running Start students are subtracted at AAFTE or Contact Time. Frankly there are enough Running Start students that they really need their own line time on the budget.
When you subtract AAFTE and Contact time, the bigger high schools are funded at 200 students less than their headcount. It would be good to have a sense of other services vs drop outs.
Very odd."
Apples and oranges taste different.
Very odd
-sleeper