Goals for 3rd High School

[gatordog]

sam2 said:

If we are building a school for 3,000 students, and if 2010 is the first year that the new school can be opened, where are those 2,700 ( 3,000 - 321) students in 2009?
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Maybe it's time to let go of our hardened opinions and take a fresh look at the numbers......

I made quick change to my spreadsheet and loaded in current HS boundaries w/ only two schools. To keep it simple (or rather present worse case...) This is for 2011 situation (9133 HS enroll):
WV=4506 (7% over capacity)
NV=4628 (10% over capacity)

For sam2's specific quest in 2009 with 8600 in HS, lets assume that diff is equally spread btw each HS:
WV= 4239
NV= 4361
or both pretty much at capacity.

Concl: in near term, the HS's will be tight be not grossly over capacity. As bob stated, the near term issue is MS overcrowding. The HS capacity issue is a longer term one, when 500-1000 more HS students come in due to new development.

[warriorpride]

bob said:

It seems to me that there was talk of overcrowding at the elementary level, yet we now have 61 classrooms available for all day kindergarten.

The overcrowding is in the middle school.

This is what I think we should do:

1) build MV on budget
2) Turn NV frosh campus to a MS
3) Sell WV frosh campus
4) Take money from selling WV frosh campus and pay down bonds. Not to pay for any overrruns.

We add a MS and go with 3 3000 seat HS. Also, we end the disaster of building freshman campuses.

Interesting. This could be the longer-term way to go (selling WV gold). What would make it nicer, too is putting the additional MS farther south.

Can anyone even imagine what the MS boundaries would be like if/when WV Gold is converted into an MS? I don't recall a topic on this forum about that.

Capacity-wise, does anyone know how many student the 7-MSs will hold (I assume whether #7 is NV gold or WV gold doesn't matter)?

[momof3]

bob said:

It seems to me that there was talk of overcrowding at the elementary level, yet we now have 61 classrooms available for all day kindergarten.

The overcrowding is in the middle school.

This is what I think we should do:

1) build MV on budget
2) Turn NV frosh campus to a MS
3) Sell WV frosh campus
4) Take money from selling WV frosh campus and pay down bonds. Not to pay for any overrruns.

We add a MS and go with 3 3000 seat HS. Also, we end the disaster of building freshman campuses.

Isn't that cutting it extremely close for future growth and the natural cycles after build out? iirc 203 is built out and still fluctuates 10% or so - population cycles and such. I would rather leave one frosh campus and have 10,200 hs capacity.

[EagleDad]

bob said:

It seems to me that there was talk of overcrowding at the elementary level, yet we now have 61 classrooms available for all day kindergarten.

The overcrowding is in the middle school.

This is what I think we should do:

1) build MV on budget
2) Turn NV frosh campus to a MS
3) Sell WV frosh campus
4) Take money from selling WV frosh campus and pay down bonds. Not to pay for any overrruns.

We add a MS and go with 3 3000 seat HS. Also, we end the disaster of building freshman campuses.

I agree. Really tough boundaries to work out with the AME site though.