West Cary Middle School's sixth-graders won't be spending next school year at Alston Ridge Elementary School.

Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, said they're shelving plans to use Alston Ridge as a sixth-grade center in 2009. He said the school won't be ready next school year due to delays completing a sewer line and a retaining wall.

Alston Ridge will just open in 2010-11 as an elementary school. Its opening will make it possible for Green Hope Elementary to unconvert that year.

Sixth-grade centers are officially on the table to deal with overcrowding in some middle schools.

Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, proposed today delaying the 2009 opening of Alston Ridge Elementary in Cary to serve as a sixth-grade center for West Cary Middle School.

He also suggested delaying the 2009 opening of Herbert Akins Road Elementary in Fuquay-Varina to serve as the sixth-grade center for Holly Ridge and Fuquay-Varina middle schools.