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Redistricting
Redistricting Goals
Reconfiguration Programmatic Assumptions
Redistricting Street Listings
Redistricting Programmatic Assumptions

• Each elementary school will be developed around the concept of a neighborhood school, with no more than a 10 point range between the lowest and highest % of low income students from school to school.

• Thoughtful consideration will be given to keeping neighborhoods in tact.
• Each school will have reportable subgroups from all major subgroups, whenever possible.
• No school will house a disproportionate number of city-wide programs (Special Education or Structured English Immersion).
• Programs that have a feeder program, ie. Life Skills and SEI, will be placed in the same section of the city to foster peer relationship building when students move from elementary to middle school.
• The PreK/K Developmental and Behavior Programs will be located at Priest Street to facilitate inclusion for students, as appropriate.
• Learning Abilities services should be expanded in kindergarten through an in-class model.
• Grade 5 teachers will instruct students via 2 or 3 person teams.
• Grade 5 inclusion services (special education) will continue as they are currently.
• Grade 5 Special Education teachers/positions will move to the elementary schools.
• 2 additional integrated K classes will be planned.
• Integrated K classes will exist at 2 elementary schools and Priest Street in order to build capacity within the elementary schools.
• JA should offer a gr. 1-2 resource room (this may require an additional position).
• The district will designate all four elementary schools as Title I eligible for 2007 – 2008, pending DOE approval.
• Optimal student/teacher ratios of 22 (PreK – grade 2), 25 (Grades 3 – 4) and 25 – 28 (Grades 5 – 8) will be maintained, whenever possible.
• Approximately 25 % of the Gifted and Talented students in grades 3 – 5 at Southeast School will come from each elementary school.
• Students who have been approved for intra-district (living within the city) school choice for the current year must re-apply for the 2007 – 2008 school year.
• Inter-school choice (living outside of the city) will be permitted to remain in their current schools, whenever possible.
• Additional resources will follow students and be allocated to schools with students in need.