Waiting for a Millbrook decision

We'll have to wait until later in the week for the school board to definitively deal with Millbrook High and the rest of the northeastern Wake high schools.

School board members agreed that the reassignment plan would move too many students would be moved out of Millbrook. The problem is they're not sure what's the right balance to leave Millbrook at without leaving other nearby schools too underenrolled.

Millbrook parents argue that it's unrealistic to move so many students out and expect they'll be replenished so quickly with magnet students.

School board members said they need to look at the northern Wake high schools as a group.

The board asked staff to come up with a scenario that would leave more students at Millbrook and make Wake Forest-Rolesville High more comparable with other schools. They also want to avoid adding new nodes.

They're looking at Wake Forest-Rolesville because Lori Millberg got the board to drop the reassignment of 182 kids from East Wake High. This would leave Wake Forest-Rolesville with a much lower percentage of Li students than other schools.

Staff will report back on Wednesday or Thursday with recommendations for the area schools.