Leesville families fighting the year-round conversion efforts are ramping things up.

Concerned and Committed Leesville Parents (CCLP) has issued a press release and formed a Web site to promote the message that Leesville Road elementary and middle schools should be on a traditional calendar. They've got yard signs and car magnets.

But as noted in today's North Raleigh News article, it's not a one-sided fight. Leesville parents who support year-round conversion are becoming more vocal to counter opponents.

Wake's new comparability effort had both some successes and some failures this school year.

The school board revised the assignment policy to bring in the idea of "comparability." The goal was to make schools in an area have similar demographics, even when it meant the unpopular notion of moving affluent areas into schools that have more low-income students.

Based on recently released data, some schools did see their percentages of low-income students go up to become more comparable to their neighbors.

It's safe to say that Leesville Road Elementary parents will have a tougher time than their peers at Baucom Elementary or any of the Knightdale schools of being unconverted.

As noted in today's North Raleigh News article, not even Leesville's own school board member, Patti Head, is supporting switching the school back to a traditional calendar.

“I supported the conversion,” Head said in today's article. “To date, I haven’t been presented any information that would cause me to change my mind. But that doesn’t mean I’m not listening to people.”

If Wake pulls the uncoversion trigger, it's looking pretty good that Baucom Elementary School will be on the list.

As noted in today's article, several school board members say that Baucom would be a lkely school to switch back to a traditional calendar. A school in Knightdale also probably would rank. But after that it's pretty uncertain.

"Baucom keeps coming to the foreground," said school board member Patti Head.