Archived Site
This site was put into archive mode as of Oct. 18, 2011. It is available so that the public can review the history of the new Student Assignment Proposal.
For the most up-to-date information about the Student Assignment Plan, please visit: http://assignment.wcpss.net/ .
Resources
Next Steps
| Oct. 18 | Board of Education votes on Proposal. |
Board of Education Briefing
(10/18/2011)(PDF)
Download the Plan
Download the Presentation
Staff Presentation to the Board
(PDF)
The student assignment plan detailed on this website is our effort to provide families across Wake County access to a quality school based on these four priorities: achievement, proximity, stability and choice. We have listened to your feedback during the seven months of developing the plan. We heard your desire for predictability; for classmates following each other from kindergarten to 12th grade; for your children to remain in your current school.
We believe this plan balances all of these needs while addressing our county's constant growth. We are adding thousands of students every year. Today we have more than 146,000 students in 165 schools. In ten years, we will be approaching 200,000 students in 195 schools. The choice-based student assignment plan we are offering gives parents, in concert with our school system, control over how that growth is managed.
If your child is currently enrolled, and you like the school you are in, you can stay in that school and follow its feeder pattern. Families wanting a change, or new families coming into the school system, have school choices and priorities based on their specific address, with priority to the most proximate schools. We continue to help fill under-enrolled schools and reduce concentrations of poverty through our magnet program, and we are expanding our program offerings to more schools through our STEM and Global Schools networks.
Community input; expert advice; studying what worked and what didn't in other districts; and a sound, transparent process: that's the approach that we used. But academic achievement and family satisfaction will be the marks of this student assignment plan's success. We invite you to review the plan and share your thoughts.