FAYETTEVILLE -- Students at Butterfield Trail and Root elementary schools may be divided between two middle schools while students at other elementaries will advance as a single group, according to a new enrollment distribution plan.
A committee of parents, administrators and staff members from every school in the district have been meeting for a few months to determine where fifth- and sixth-graders would attend middle school and where seventh- and eighth-graders will attend junior high school.
At A Glance
School Meetings
Meetings are scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. each of three evenings for the public to hear a committee’s recommendations about changing enrollment at Fayetteville’s middle and junior high schools.
• Monday: Owl Creek School cafeteria, 375 N. Rupple Road.
• Tuesday: Holt Middle School band room, 2365 N. Rupple Road.
• Thursday: McNair Middle School band room, 3030 E. Mission Blvd.
Source: Staff Report
Realigning middle and junior high schools takes effect when freshmen start attending Fayetteville High School in 2015.
The committee's recommendations will be the focus of community meetings next week at Owl Creek School, Holt and McNair middle schools, said Patty Plummer, campus services and projects manager for the district.
An earlier committee recommended all students from an elementary school be moved as a group to a middle school to keep the students together as they move through middle level education to the high school. Some parents at Butterfield Trail Elementary didn't want their children to attend Holt Middle School on the far side of town because they live closer to McNair Middle School.
The new committee agreed to split students from Butterfield and Root schools between Holt and McNair middle schools with the dividing line at Old Wire and Old Missouri roads, Plummer said. The committee recommends keeping the Owl Creek zone as it is so students will stay in that school through sixth grade.
Elementary schools will be kindergarten through fourth grade and those attendance boundaries won't change.
Plummer said more information about the enrollment distribution plan is available on the district website at http://district.fayar.net/pages/Fayetteville_SD/About_Us/Media/enrollment_distribution.
The recommendation will be presented to the School Board at its April 24 meeting. The board likely will vote on the recommendation at its May meeting.
NW News on 04/11/2014