WCPSS reassignment plan released.. (Cary, Apex: school districts, subdivision, living in)

[NCBoyMommy]

Originally Posted by lamishra

All I know is that there are a lot of nodes being assigned into Cary high from Panther Creek and Green Hope. Earlier this year, when school first started, there was an article about Panther Creek (not Green Hope) being over capacity by approx 500 students and many people were questioning why their kids were cramped into trailers when Cary High was underenrolled by about 500 students!

...and yes clearly Growth Management messed up. They should have left those kids at Cary High instead of uprooting them and sending them to Panther Creek and now sending them to Athens Drive.

[sls76]

Originally Posted by NCBoyMommy

I might be wrong but the way I understood it people are upset because they were sent to Panther Creak from Cary High and now they are being sent to Athens Drive instead of back to Cary High. So they are looking at 3 Highschool changes in 3 years. They just want to go back to Cary High.

If you look at the plan on the WCPSS website, Panther Creek has a ton of nodes out and only one node in. It would be over 1000 students over capacity by 2011 if they didn't reassign. Of the nodes, 4 were reassigned to Athens, 14 to Cary and 12 to Leesville.

[NCBoyMommy]

Originally Posted by sls76

If you look at the plan on the WCPSS website, Panther Creek has a ton of nodes out and only one node in. It would be over 1000 students over capacity by 2011 if they didn't reassign. Of the nodes, 4 were reassigned to Athens, 14 to Cary and 12 to Leesville.

Do you know if the nodes going back to those schools came from those schools or will this be a 3rd highschool for them?

[sls76]

Originally Posted by NCBoyMommy

Do you know if the nodes going back to those schools came from those schools or will this be a 3rd highschool for them?

I honestly don't know (does the website keep a history of past reassignments?), but if they've started at one h.s. for 9th grade and were moved to Panther Creek for 10th and 11th, are those students grandfathered? Regardless, it was poor planning (how could they just now realize PC would be 50% over capacity 5 years after it opened?).

[NCBoyMommy]

Someone shared this on N&O but this is a little scary if you live in the Panther Creek area. A lot of the development which will likely drive enrollment at Panther Creek hasn't even happened yet.

Here's a link to the Cary Northwest Development plan:

http://www.townofcary.org/northwest/nwcaplanduse.pdf

[MamaBear75]

This is crazy! We live in the city of Raleigh and are zoned for a Knightdale and Wendell! When are they going to start education vouchers. Us parents need to have a choice. This is ridiculous. What department of wake county is responsible for funding WCPSS? I want the money that they set aside for my son to go to wcpss schools so I can send him to a school of MY choice.

[lamishra]

Originally Posted by NCBoyMommy

Do you know if the nodes going back to those schools came from those schools or will this be a 3rd highschool for them?

It may be the third reassignment, I don't know that for a fact but PC is only 5years old so they can't have had that many reassignments. In fact, no high schools have been affected at all in the last couple of years of reassignments.
But high school is only 4 years and you can be grandfathered into your current school after 9th grade, so the high school level reassignments will only affect rising freshmen who would be changing schools anyway. So no, this will not be a third HS for anyone.

[uncletupelo]

I'minformed2- Broughton High School is in a very high income area. To call it otherwise, is not correct.

[NCBoyMommy]

Originally Posted by lamishra

But high school is only 4 years and you can be grandfathered into your current school after 9th grade

That is not looking like it will be the case this time. they are saying only Rising Seniors and juniors.

[I'minformed2]

Originally Posted by sls76

I honestly don't know (does the website keep a history of past reassignments?), but if they've started at one h.s. for 9th grade and were moved to Panther Creek for 10th and 11th, are those students grandfathered? Regardless, it was poor planning (how could they just now realize PC would be 50% over capacity 5 years after it opened?).

PC has not been opened for 5 years....only 2 and a half. It first opened in the 2006-2007 school year, my daughter was a freshman there then. They took kids from Apex, Green Hope, and Leesville (rising sophomores and incoming freshman) and moved them there. So the first year it was opened Panther Creek only had 9th and 10th graders, then last year they would have had only 9th 10th and 11th, and now this would be the first school year that they have all 4 grades in the building.