2008 Elementary School Feeder Pattern

Committee

Appoquinimink School District

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Schedule of Reports

April 8: Board ReportMay 13: Board First Reading:

Town Meetings:May 27: Townsend Elementary (6:30p)June 2: New Covenant Presbyterian Church

(1125 Jamison Corner Road, 10:00a)June 2: Cedar Lane Elementary (6:30p)

June 10: Board Second Reading:

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Members

Parents: Building Administrators:Dr. Nemish Mehta (OBL) Lorraine Lybarger/Shevena CaleKris Baxter (CLE) Donna K./Rebecca FeathersKaren Hopkins (SLE) Sharon Pepukayi/Cyndi ClayJeffory Gibeault (BME*) Don DavisMichele Frayler (TES) Lucia Weathers

District Administration:Gregg Tulowitzky (chairperson)Data Support: Chuck Longfellow, Sandy Joswick, Andy Woitko

University of Delaware:John Laznik, Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research

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Factors to Consider

• Balanced enrollment in grade-level schools, anticipating growth

• Students would remain with others from their community to attend the school nearest their community

• Equitable distribution of students based on “socio-economic” status (Free/Reduced Lunch)

• Equitable distribution of students based on ethnicity

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Dangers To Avoid (if possible)

• Moving one border community back and forth between schools in successive redistricting plans. (within 5 years)

• Students assigned to a school and would drive by a same grade-level school.

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Services Utilized

• Technology Management and Design (Department of Education, Don Berry)

• ArcGIS Software (University of Delaware, John Laznik)

• eSchool (DOE)• Trapeze Redistricting Software

(Tulowitzky)

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Current Enrollment

District 3,329 (Enrollment as of 2/14)

# of Students (% Building Capacity)

OBL 682 (94%)SLE 678 (102%)CLE 652 (82%)BME 806 (98%)TES 511 (112%)

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Projected Enrollment With Plan F

District 3,820 (Estimate for 9/30/2009)

# of Students (% Building Capacity)OBL 730 (101.39%)NEW 670 (81.71%)SLE 610 (91.73%)CLE 690 (86.25%)BME 670 (81.71%)TES 450 (98.90%)Employee Student Choice from Out of District ??

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Plan FFree/Reduced Lunch

(Grade 1-5)

District 15.59%

07/08 08/09OBL 5.72 6.06NEW 0 12.78SLE 29.94 28.57CLE 5.37 8.51BME 17.00 20.31TES 20.55 23.65

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Plan F

Ethnic Percentages 1 2 3 4 5

District .66 23.49 4.54 4.48 66.84

OBL .91 19.55 12.58 2.88 64.09NEW .68 22.32 1.53 4.94 70.53SLE .20 32.29 3.13 6.26 58.12CLE .90 15.23 2.69 2.69 78.49BME .77 28.73 3.53 5.84 61.14TES .30 23.05 1.50 4.49 70.66

1-Native American2-African American3-Asian4-Hispanic5-Caucasian

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