What is the purpose of having 9th Grade Centers in some of Orange County's high schools? (Orlando: construction)

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[nekochan999]

I can't answer for Orlando, but I know in my district here in NY there is a 9th grade 'team' - it's a group of kids who perhaps need a little extra help or support for the transition to the high school. The same kids are in the same classes (social studies, english, science etc.) and the team teachers coordinate homeworks, projects etc. or sometimes will discuss problems a particular child is having and how to address that problem.

It's not a special ed thing by any means - these are the mainstream kids who just need a little extra support.

[sean1the1]

All of the 9th grade centers in orange county are from a time period dating back to the early 90s to early 2000s. At this time period the high schools were all older smaller schools ,and did not have the sating capacity for the schools population. So they had to construct these makeshift campuses to relive over crowding. But since orange county has passed a 2 billion dollar school construction plan to relive crowding at some of the schools some of these 9th grade center are no longer needed. But for some school such as winter park, Dr Phillips, west orange, and colonial high schools.These 9th grade campuses have simply become essential to the schools themselfs.

[brinkofsunshine]

I think it could be to simply support the large influx of 9th grade students to some of the larger high schools.

[DavieJ89]

The only 2 I know that have 9th grade centers,are Colonial and Evans

[sean1the1]

Im not sure, but are they going to close down the evans 9th grande center? It only makes sence considering the fact that the school only has a population of 1900 and the new campus can hold over 2300 kids.

[Crane's Rooster]

The way i always understood it as a cost saving measure. When schools became overcrowed they contructed a new campus for projected growth. The freshman class is usually the largest class at moat high schools so they kept the 9th graders at the older smaller campus and moved the upperclassmen into new campus. It was cheaper than building new schools and redisrricting since it required less additional staff and resources than completely new schools.

[bdpop]

It also could be that when these schools were built, high schools were only tenth through twelfth grade and were not designed for as many students. In Orange County at least, ninth grade used to part of junior high school.

[jjang]

accordng to my old 9th grade teacher it was to prevent the whole "Freshman" crap,

[boy3365]

The 9th grade centers were from the way things were done years ago. New campuses and many renovated ones don't have 9th grade centers anymore.