Smith Farm Elementary School

Smith Farm Elementary School

• Opens Fall 2013• Designed for approximately 720 students K-5• Located just north of I-40 in Winston-Salem, near

Oak Grove Church Rd– 4250 Johnny Knoll Ln

Current Capacity Concerns• Hall-Woodward – 23 classrooms outside building (2 pods, 9 mobiles)

• Sedge Garden– Capacity without mobiles is 862

• Caleb’s Creek- Opened fall 2009– Enrollment exceeds 900 students after only 3 years– Goal is to not add mobiles and to reduce enrollment

• Union Cross enrollment is steady but not significantly increasing since Caleb’s Creek opened– Enrollment 2008-09: 1,213 – Current enrollment: 831

Student Assignment Procedure• Rising 4th and 5th grade students grandfathered to stay at

current schools

• Rising 1st-3rd grade students

– Students residential to the new school who attend Hall-Woodward or Sedge Garden as current residential students, will be assigned to Smith Farm and would need to make a choice to attend another school

– Students who will be residential to Smith Farm but made a choice in previous years to attend another school will be assigned back to their current school

Choice Pattern• When opening new elementary schools in the past

few years, it resulted in the zone having 6 schools– Makes transportation more difficult

• Following a similar pattern as Zones 7 and 8, Zone 1 will be divided into ‘Blue’ and ‘Green’ Sections– Opportunity to limit overcrowding at Caleb’s Creek

• Current students and siblings who are ‘grandfathered’ will receive transportation until the oldest student in that family completes the grade span – AR 5117.2.III.A.1.d

Choice Pattern cont.

Forest Park Caleb’s Creek

Hall-Woodward Union Cross

Smith Farm Sedge Garden

Capacity and Population K-5

School (Capacity)

Current Residenti

al

Proposed Residentia

lCurrent Actual

Estimated Actual

Hall-Woodward (570)

1217 963 751 589

Sedge Garden (862) 1037 616 886 625

Union Cross (755) 480 625* 831 843

Smith Farm(720) X 528 X 528

*67 of proposed already at UCES

Caleb’s Creek Impact

• Enrollment decrease from Choice options changing– 94 from Hall-Woodward – 15 from Forest Park that would become ‘out of

zone’ students (916 to 807)– Enrollment could lower to 807 in 2 years or less