Booming Enrollment Presents Challenge to School District
Posted on: Monday, 6 March 2006, 09:01 CST
By Kristofer Noceda, STAFF WRITER
DANVILLE -- A booming enrollment for the next school year has left the San Ramon Valley Unified School District looking for ways in accommodating elementary students from the Dougherty Valley.
The district will unveil its latest proposal to the Board of Education on Tuesday night, with hopes of keeping neighborhoods together and minimizing the use of lotteries and diversions by adding an additional kindergarten and first-grade class at Coyote Creek Elementary School.
Schools are experiencing an over enrollment -- especially in the kindergarten classes, said Terry Koehne, district spokesman.
Dougherty Valley currently only has two elementary school facilities in Coyote Creek and Hidden Hills. Quail Run Elementary -- consisting of a few interim portables on the Coyote Creek campus -- will open this fall with the capacity to hold 900 students. Another school-- Live Oak Elementary -- will open next year and will house 900 students.
The districts goal is to eventually have all four schools with a capacity of 900 students. There are plans to expand Hidden Hills to the desired capacity by 2008. Originally targeted for 2009, the proposal -- if approved -- will accelerate the permanent build-out of Coyote Creek to hold 900 students by fall 2008.
The proposal would also allow about 20 of next years first- graders, who are currently diverted, to return to Coyote Creek based on their standings on a waiting list.
Other advantages to the proposal would eliminate any kindergarten lottery and boundary changes. If a lottery were to happen, students would randomly be assigned to schools with space throughout the district.
However, the proposal would also hang dry about 65 diverted students in grades 1-3 from Coyote Creek to Quail Run. The students would stay in Quail Run until space becomes available at Coyote Creek.
Kristofer Noceda can be reached at (925) 416-4821 or at
knoceda@trivalleyherald.com.
Source: Oakland Tribune
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