CMS Releases List Of Proposed School Boundary Changes

CHARLOTTE, NC -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools have released a comprehensive list of proposed changes to school boundaries that stand to affect more than half of the district’s schools. The list, accompanied with maps, emerge as district officials began holding information sessions for parents, explaining the proposed changes.

CMS’ list of boundary changes by school can be found here. Information about upcoming or previously held information sessions discussing changes for individual schools may be be found here.

CMS Superintendent Ann Clark proposed the long-awaited student reassignment proposal April 25 that would bring changes to 75 of the district’s 138 schools. The proposal includes redrawing school boundaries, reopening shuttered facilities and realigning feeder school patterns.

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The school board used four metrics in deciding the new assignment strategy: proximity of the school to a student’s home, the feeder school pattern, socioeconomic patterns and the ratio of teachers to core classrooms.

The full CMS proposal on the changes that would take effect at the start of the 2018 school year can be found here.

According to CMS, the new strategy will improve socioeconomic diversity in 21 of the 75 schools that will be affected by the change, and will improve proximity for students at 14 schools. The plan will also increase the number of magnet school seats by 62 percent, bringing the total district number to 4,270 seats for the 2018-2019 school year.

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A public hearing is scheduled May 9 with a vote scheduled May 24.

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