UCPS 2014-15 actual numbers post redistricting (Waxhaw, Marvin: for sale, houses, neighborhoods)
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For those curious, UCPS has posted enrollment numbers for this school year (link below). I also provided a link to Webb's Magical McKibben 9Ball Forecast used to finalize the redistricting - it was of course finetuned to include all the grandfathering back in the Spring. Now we see how he did.
Biggest swing and miss easily was New Town ES which will need to be capped - unless our illustrious facilities committee can wave a magic wand and change capacity numbers. The largest joke in the entire proposal is still on Valhala / Bonds Grove section carved out to be sent across into Cuthbertson... as Ms. Savage completely ignored them and packed up to leave the vote, they're bused past her neighborhood to a capped Elementary. Meanwhile across the board Marvin Ridge is well under forecasts.
This should make for an interesting BOE meeting on the 8th. Time to save face.
We all now know we can't trust them, their numbers, their judgement or when they speak. Nothing they say, show or do has any meaning now. This disaster affected EVERY area and the entire county will continue to feel the negative effects for a long time to come.
We all now know we can't trust them, their numbers, their judgement or when they speak. Nothing they say, show or do has any meaning now. This disaster affected EVERY area and the entire county will continue to feel the negative effects for a long time to come.
We moved our younger kids to private...and older is finishing out HS in UC. We didn't really move because of redistricting but more because of Common Core and our overall unhappiness that we felt w/ Public School over the past few years. That aside...a neighbor told me that at Sun Valley her daughter said they could barely walk through the hallways because it is dangerously crowded? Anyone else heard or experienced this. If this is true...what does next year bring with all of the new neighborhoods going up.
I wonder if anybody can do a check on affected neighborhoods - how many houses are for sale compared to previous year?
In mine there are 4 times as many compared to same time (summer to today) last year...and I know other neighbors that plan to list & move before the "grandfather clause" expire for grade 8th students by next school year...
Lots of parents now have to drive students so they can stay in same school (grade 8 and HS) which resulted in more traffic & danger (since many more HS students are forced to drive) and headaches...so I understand why so many plan to move from what were once very desirable neighborhoods...
We moved our younger kids to private...and older is finishing out HS in UC. We didn't really move because of redistricting but more because of Common Core and our overall unhappiness that we felt w/ Public School over the past few years. That aside...a neighbor told me that at Sun Valley her daughter said they could barely walk through the hallways because it is dangerously crowded? Anyone else heard or experienced this. If this is true...what does next year bring with all of the new neighborhoods going up.
SVMS?
If its the middle school, that is greatly exaggerated I can assure you.
Mikey-There are only two elementary schools in Cuthberston cluster.
Kensington and Newtown Combined Capacity=1608/6 grades=268 seats per grade
Cuthbertson Middle=1200/3 grades=400 seats per grade
Cuthberston High=1600/4 grades=400 seats per grade
Capacity of 3 Elementary Schools Would Be 2412/6 grades=402 seats per grade
Obviously, UCPS knows this and plans to move forward on the third elementary school. That can't happen with the wave of a wand. It will be crowded at both New Town and Kensington. Alternatively, it looks like there is some room in Waxhaw Elementary (which could be split) it appears from the numbers MikeyKid posted, but everyone wants to go to the elementary school closest to their house.
Last edited by BubbaHelms; 10-03-2014 at 10:10 AM..
[quote=BubbaHelms;36734145]Mikey-There are only two elementary schools in Cuthberston cluster.
Kensington and Newtown Combined Capacity=1608/6 grades=268 seats per grade
Cuthbertson Middle=1200/3 grades=400 seats per grade
Cuthberston High=1600/4 grades=400 seats per grade
Capacity of 3 Elementary Schools Would Be 2412/6 grades=402 seats per grade
This makes me furious. They don't need a new Cuthbertson Elementary School. They have over 1000 empty seats in the west side elementary schools. We don't have enough damn toilets at Sun Valley High School. Some of the boys bathrooms don't even have doors on the stalls. Fix our schools first. They should have put the Marvin kids in trailers, they would survive, might be good for them. Mine do just fine in trailers at Sun Valley. Stop wasting all this money bussing kids all over the county. Union Elementary doesn't have hot water? Did you know they have about 3 working toilets? Disgraceful. Greedy, and keep raising our taxes to pay for this. What a disgrace.
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