Scotia Glenville Central School District

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Scotia Glenville Central School District

• Redistricting Presentation
• November 13, 2006

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Our Broad Focus

• What do we want for our students?
• How might we best achieve it?
• How will we know we have been successful?

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Why do we need to do something?

• There are three main goals to the redistricting
  effort
• Maintain equity between the four schools in class
  size to ensure that all children have access to
  the same quality of education and special
  services.
• Maintain a minimum of two sections at all four
  elementary schools. Educationally, at least two
  sections allow for more collaboration between
  teachers and also makes it easier to regulate
  class sizes.
• Stay within a range of the class guidelines.
  Those guidelines recommend 22 students per class
  in grades K-1, 23 in grade 2, 24 in grade 3 and
  26 in grades 4 and 5.

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How many elementary students attend schools other
than their home school?

• At this time, approximately 90 students are
  attending schools other than their home school.
• v Students who have been reassigned 29
• v Students who were invited back but chose
  not to return 16
• v Students who have special permissions 45

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Are class sizes equal at the four schools? NO

• The two schools in the village Lincoln and
  Sacandaga tend to have smaller class sizes than
  the two schools outside of the village Glendaal
  and Glen-Worden.
• Dont forget the following figures include
  Glendaal and Glen-Worden students who are
  attending the schools in the village.
• Glendaals class sizes range from a low of 17 in
  grade 1 to a high of 23 in grade 4
• Glen-Wordens class sizes range from a low of 19
  in grade 1 to a high of 24 in grade 5
• Lincolns class sizes range from a low of 14 in
  grade 1 to a high of 23 in grade 5
• Sacandagas class sizes range from a low of 16 in
  grade 1 to a high of 21 in grade 3

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How are Scotia-Glenvilles Elementary Schools
Similar?

• Each school uses the same curriculum
• The grade level expectations are the same for all
  schools
• Regular meetings are held throughout the year so
  teachers of the same grade level in different
  schools can discuss instruction and student
  learning
• Opportunities for extra help, remediation,
  special education, and enrichment are available
  in all schools
• All schools offer art, music, physical education,
  and library media skills
• All schools have library media centers including
  computer labs
• Before and after school clubs and activities are
  available in all schools
• Staff development opportunities aimed at
  enhancing instruction are available to all staff
• Students at the four elementary schools scored
  within the same range on the spring 2006 English
  Language Arts tests given this year in grades 3-5

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What are the options to deal with enrollment?

• There are several options that the Board of
  Education may be asked to consider
• Do nothing continue moving students where there
  are population bubbles to neighboring school
  zones.
• Redistrict particular streets in both the
  Glendaal and Glen-Worden zones.
• Establish swing zones - most likely by using the
  same streets being considered for redistricting.
• Close an elementary school Most likely Lincoln
  due to the size of its enrollment and location.
  Lincoln students would be sent to either
  Glendaal, Glen-Worden and/or Sacandaga.

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Do nothing

• With this option, the district would
  continue doing as it is currently doing
• When a new child moves into a school zone and
  there are no seats for that child he or she is
  bused at district expense to another school.
• It is generally understood that the child
  would have the option to either return to his or
  her home school in future years or to stay at the
  new school in the future.
• The superintendent may be required to end all
  special permissions now being granted for day
  care, etc. Right now
• There are 40 -50 students attending a school that
  is NOT their home school. Most of these switches
  were made because parents had child care in a
  zone other than their home zone.
• There is in excess of 45 students NOT attending
  their home school because the district didnt
  have space for them at their home school.
• The Board of Education would be asked to finance
  two extra teaching positions each year. This
  would give the superintendent flexibility to deal
  with bubbles in the population by adding
  teaching sections where they may be needed. All
  four schools have sufficient space to add grade
  sections.

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Redistrict streets in Glendaal

• This would reverse the redistricting that
  occurred in 1989 when Glen-Worden was reopened.
• In the current Glendaal zone
• All students living in the Pine Street,
  MacArthur, Vernon Boulevard, Vley Road triangle
  area would attend Sacandaga Elementary beginning
  in September 2007. There are 58 K-5 students in
  that area.
• Extend that Sacandaga zone on Vley Road to Route
  5 and include Badgley, Foch, Hardin, Haigh and
  Vley Road. That would add another 11 K-5
  students.
• Thats a total of 69 students. However, students
  in grades 3 and 4 would be allowed to stay at
  their current school or to move all K-2 students
  in that area now attending Glendaal would attend
  Sacandaga.

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Here are the streets in the Glendaal zone
Pine Street, MacArthur, Vernon Boulevard, Vley
Road triangle
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Here are the extended streets in the Glendaal
zone Vley Road to Route 5 including Badgley,
Foch, Hardin, Haigh and Vley Road.
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Redistrict streets in Glen-Worden

• This would reverse the redistricting that
  occurred in 1989 when Glen-Worden was reopened.
• In the current Glen-Worden zone
• All students living in the Sunnyside, Washington
  Road, Washington Avenue, Irving, Knickerbocker
  and Livingston would attend Lincoln Elementary
  beginning in September 2007. There are 38 K-5
  students in that area.
• Extend that Lincoln zone east on Sunnyside to
  Freemans Bridge Road and include Arbor, Greenway
  and Westwood. That would add another 18 K-5
  students.
• Thats a total of 56 students. However, students
  in grades 3and 4 would be allowed to stay at
  their current school or to move all K-2 students
  in that area now attending Glen-Worden would
  attend Lincoln.

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Here are the streets in the Glen-Worden zone
Sunnyside, Washington Road, Washington Avenue,
Irving, Knickerbocker and Livingston
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Here are the extended streets in the Glen-Worden
zone East on Sunnyside to Freemans Bridge Road
and include Arbor, Greenway and Westwood
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Swing zones

• Swing zones would be used on the same
  aforementioned streets in the Glendaal and
  Glen-Worden attendance zones.
• New students moving to those areas after June 30,
  2007 would attend either Lincoln or Sacandaga
  depending on the area.
• Enrollment would be reevaluated every year to
  determine whether a shift of students would be
  needed from one zone to another. Most of the
  time, changes would NOT be made each year but
  trends and class sizes would be studied annually.
• Siblings of Glen-Worden and Glendaal students
  entering after June 30, 2007 would be exempt
  from swinging from year to year or could opt to
  move to the new elementary zone.
• Students in other grades would also be exempt
  from swinging from year to year or could opt to
  move to the new elementary zone.

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Close an elementary school

• With this option, the district would close a
  school, most likely Lincoln
• Children and staff would be distributed to the
  other three school zones. Lincoln is centrally
  located between the other three zones and has the
  lowest enrollment.
• Enrollments would increase at the other three
  schools. That may make it easier to equalize
  class sizes and guarantee at least two sections
  at every building.

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Recommendations for Redistricting

• Recommendations
• Redistrict identified Glendaal and Glen-Worden
  zones to Sacandaga and Lincoln
• Begin to phase out special permissions
• Develop a Board policy and procedures for day
  care transportation
• Explore the possibility of centralized
  registration as part of our 2007- 2008 budget
  planning
• Plan and implement a yearly census conducted
  through the mail
• Add 2.0 FTE to the 2007 2008 budget to address
  unanticipated bubbles in enrollment