The Wake County school system has grown by more than 3,600 students so far this school year.
School officials reported they had 143,235 students on Wednesday, up 3,636 students from last year's official enrollment. Wake could move up a spot this year to overtake the Montgomery County school system in Maryland to become the 17th-largest school district in the nation.
School officials are using Wednesday's total, which marks the 10th-day of classes, to decide whether to transfer teachers. Schools get teachers based on their enrollment.
This year's official enrollment will be determined later this month based on how many students are attending the 20th-day of classes, Wake is on place to pick up the overall projected growth of 3,800 new students.
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Have you read the Char Observer blogs?
Sat, 09/11/2010 - 23:07 — bluedaisyGo to the Charlotte Observer website - -
Education, and read the story Solon clipped. 142 comments.
Are we as a community headed to such animosity?
Is your entire perspective
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 18:50 — woodstockIs your entire perspective based on what happens in either Wake County or CMS? There is a whole world out there...
Nope - -
Mon, 09/13/2010 - 19:50 — bluedaisyI'm watching Winston, and New Hanover too. And, they are watching us! (I have friends everywhere, Woody!)
Wow, you know folks in
Tue, 09/14/2010 - 12:56 — woodstockWow, you know folks in Winston AND New Hanover in addition to Wake and CMS ...I stand corrected, you really do have a nationwide -- global even -- perspective. LOL
Don't know your
Tue, 09/14/2010 - 20:30 — Solon77OT, but is seems you do not know your own neighborhood. Following your comment that there is no traffic from 540 to Leesville - I was about to put a GPS on my wife's car. We live 5 miles from Leesville and my wife leaves 30 minutes before she has to be at school, claiming traffic. Watching the news this morning, it appears the DOT is holding public hearings on the widening of Leesville due to the traffic and congestion.
Maybe you need to get out of your driveway once and a while.
Tried
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 19:21 — Solon77I tried to find some rays of sunshine - but no luck. Maybe you can help.
What do you mean
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 17:56 — Solon77Aren't you feeling the community love - all the way from Charlotte. :)
"School officials reported
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 19:10 — user12345"School officials reported they had 143,235 students on Wednesday, up 3,636 students from last year's official enrollment. Wake could move up a spot this year to overtake the Montgomery County school system in Maryland to become the 17th-largest school district in the nation."
Where are all the bloggers (TPG, Mudge, Bob, lori, SDR) who back during the elections were saying we were not growing and the enrollment forecast were over stated ...that people were moving away .... so here we are , with overcrowded schools and no matter how "bad" a schools system you keep saying we have , others keep coming ... you need a bigger blow horn to get your message out to stop the wave ...
Oh no Mr. Bill
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 20:33 — g88ky07Could it be time to convert more schools to the beloved MYR calendar?
Come save us Horatio Hornblower, won't you!
CMS
Fri, 09/10/2010 - 14:15 — Solon77It would appear CMS is taking the budget shortfall seriously. In yesterday's Charlotte Observer - Closing schools, Year Round, changing boundries (reassignment).
The district is considering closing schools as a cost-cutting measure, as it anticipates a budget shortfall for the 2011-12 school year.
CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman and his staff stressed that closing or consolidating are only options for those schools. For many of the 13 schools, redrawing boundaries and adding programs were also options that officials discussed Thursday.
Nearly all of the schools on the list are considered underutilized, meaning they're not close to being filled.
CMS officials and school board members discussed each school that is currently recommended for some type of change -- a list that's grown to include 37 schools. (Click here to see the full list.) The district is considering year-round schooling at some of the schools on the list that are too full, officials said.
Schools recommended for possible year-round schooling
• Ballantyne Elementary
• Hickory Grove Elementary
• Highland Creek Elementary
• Hornets Nest Elementary
• Torrence Creek Elementary
• Community House Middle
• Mint Hill Middle
Year-round schooling would help alleviate overcrowding because students’ schedules could be staggered, CMS officials said, and fewer students would be at the schools at once.
“One of the reasons to go to year-round schools is to try and save space and save dollars. But when you do it with a small segment of students, you can be limited on what you save,” Gorman said. “So you have to look at the reasons you say to do it, and what turns into reality.”
For many of those schools, though, adding more mobile classrooms or changing boundaries are also options.
Thursday’s meeting was one of many that Gorman and the school board will have. All decisions will need to be made by mid-November
CMS has the seats
Sat, 09/11/2010 - 22:26 — bluedaisyCMS has the seats. They are in underutilized, underchosen downtown schools, some are magnets. These are expensive to run half empty. The schools slated for year round are significantly over capacity in the far suburbs, north and south. Rather than redraw lines to better utilize schools they have, they are willing to shut down schools - some of which they just remodeled in the last 5 - 8 years. Keep watching CMS folks - its where we are headed.
Did you go off your meds
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 20:21 — CaryCurmudgeonDid you go off your meds again? I don't recall anyone saying that people were moving away. I will agree that the growth projections of 5-6,000 students per year that were used to justify converting 22 schools were overstated.
used to justify converting 22 schools..???
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 10:13 — exYank_WCprinAre you out of your mind?...People moved in at that rate and would have continued if the bottom didn't fall out of real estate in other parts of the country. But CC I'm certain that you, unlike WCPSS and Wake Planning, saw the Great Recession coming and shorted the market to make your millions so you can annoy people on this blog fulltime. Time for you to get a hobby.
If it annoys you, don't read
Sun, 09/12/2010 - 20:38 — CaryCurmudgeonIf it annoys you, don't read it. WCPSS enrollment averaged about 50% less than their projection in 2007, 2008 and 2009. That was certainly before the recession hit. Hopefully the new board can address this and come up with a better forecasting tool.
Not another "Meeker outsider"
Mon, 09/13/2010 - 09:55 — g88ky07becoming annoyed.
Restore the sanity board majority, it's time to unconvert 1/2 of those 22 schools that were falsely forced upon our community and restore normalcy back into our families lives.
All in the name of NON-Growth of course!
Beg Pardon?
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 20:07 — Bob_SconceI don't recall saying that. I know that I've never said that people are moving away.
Umm
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 19:38 — TrailerParkGirlWell, I don't recall the growth projection issue generally having been my area of focus, as that seemed to come up in relation to MYR, which wasn't my key concern. However, as you called me out, I found these and offer them for your consideration: (Personally, I don't see slower growth as a bad thing - there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing")
From '07 demographics report:
2010-11 projected enrollment (mid-range) - 154,244 (down from the 160,000 projected in the 2005 report)
http://www.wcpss.net/demographics/reports/book07.pdf#page=127
Number of students added sets new record each year
10th day
Per-school numbers?
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 17:12 — Bob_SconceKeung -- when do you expect to hear about per-school numbers?
They should have it. I just
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 17:52 — KeungHui (author)They should have it. I just dont' have it right now.