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WCPS STUDENT ATTENDANCE AREA GUIDELINES

ESTABLISHING STUDENT ATTENDANCE AREAS The following guidelines for establishing student attendance areas are intended to provide a structure within which specific boundary decisions can be made. From the outset of the redistricting process, the board has stipulated that all decisions must be based on educationally sound criteria and reflect the best solution for the largest number of students. While the guidelines will be considered individually, adjustments to each stated goal may very well have to be made to meet the overall goals and provide a reasonable transition to the revised attendance areas. 1. School Size Recommended (optimum number) Elementary: 400-500 (possibly 450-550) Middle: 700-800 High: 900-1100 2. Goal for Enrollment Balance (minority percentage of school population) Range of 25% to 45% 3. Elementary Schools a. Nonpaired school - prekindergarten through fifth b. Assignment of first graders to schools within geographic boundaries of their residence preferred c. Paired schools - preferred grade alignments: prekindergarten through second and third through fifth d. Principal and vice principal for each elementary school (250+ students) 4. Completion of Program a. Grandfathering September 1999 seniors (students will provide own transportation) b. Consider additional high school grade levels 5. Special Permission Transfers: All contingent upon space available in requested school/grade level/program within established parameters for approving transfers. 6. Attendance patterns that allow students to attend prekindergarten through eighth with same peers are encouraged. 7. Special Needs a. Level IV - Maintain in individual or paired schools (SLD/SED) with special rooms, where needed. b. Level V - Maintain in centers (intellectually limited, multiple handicapped). 8. Intensive Study (In-school Suspension): Program in individual schools rather than regional centers preferred.

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