Key Milestones

Identify Criteria  - Based on feedback from more than 2000 community members, CMS identified four metrics to assess each of the district’s 138 home-school boundaries and how they aligned with the Board’s goals. The four metrics are:

• Proximity – the average home-to-school distance in miles for all the students enrolled in a school.
  
• Intact feeder pattern – the number of schools to which a school continues.  If a feeder pattern is completely intact, all the students in a given elementary school continue to a single middle school.  Similarly, all the students in that middle school would continue to a single high school. 
  
• Socioeconomic diversity – the size of the largest socioeconomic group assigned to a school as a percentage of the school’s overall assignment. 
  
• Utilization – the ratio of teachers to core classrooms, not including classrooms in mobile units.

Evaluate Boundaries and High School Feeder Patterns  - CMS staff applied the criteria to all existing boundaries and high school feeder patterns to identify those that least support the Board’s Goals. This process was informed by our Guiding Principles for Student Assignment which require that CMS continue to assign students to a home-school in proximity to their home address and consider the following factors:

• Socioeconomic diversity
  
• Overcrowding / low enrollment
  
• Travel distance from home and time on the bus
  
• Keeping students from the same neighborhood together
  
• Population density
  
• Intact high school feeder patterns (having students from the same elementary school go to the same middle school and having students from the same middle school go to the same high school) 
  

Develop Proposals - CMS staff developed options for new boundaries and high school feeder patterns that better support the Board’s Goals.

Present Proposals to the Board  - On April 25, 2017, Superintendent Clark presented proposals to the Board of Education.  To learn more about the proposals:

• Watch a video message from Superintendent Ann Clark​

• Read the Executive Summary of the Phase II Student Assignment Superintendent Proposals

• Review the Presentation of Phase II Proposals to the Board of Education 

• Review the Student Assignment Review Board Worksession May 16 2017.pdf

Share Proposals with the Community (May 2017)  - CMS needs the support of the community to successfully implement proposed proposals. We are committed to ensuring that you can get the information you need about the plans.  

• Review the SAR Proposals - Board Binder.pdf with detailed proposals and data.

• Review by school SES for all schools after plan_2018.pdf  (low/medium/high).

• Review list of boundary changes by school including maps of affected areas.

• Attend an information session:   Go to the Information Session page to learn which meeting is relevant to you and when the meeting will be held.  Meetings will begin Monday, May 1st.
  

• Submit a question online:    The most frequently asked questions will be answered on this site.  

You may sign up to speak by calling Board Services, 980-343-5139 option 4. Requests will be accepted from the Thursday prior to each public hearing through 12:00 p.m. the day of the meeting or in the meeting chamber by 6 p.m.

Individuals will be allowed up to 2 minutes to speak; group requests will not be allowed; requests may not be made on behalf of others. Please call between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.

• May 9, 2017:  requests accepted May 4 - May 9 at noon
  

• May 24, 2017:  requests accepted May 18 - May 24 at noon