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Plan Presented for New Grade Schools: Follows Weddington Middle, Parkwood Middle Boundary

Posted on: Sunday, 21 May 2006, 06:08 CDT

By Emily S. Achenbaum, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.

May 21--A proposed student reassignment plan for two Union County elementaries opening for the 2007-08 school year will draw children from nearly 60 subdivisions.

Union County Schools administrators presented their plan for assignments to now-unnamed "Elementary H" and "Elementary I" at a school board work session Thursday. Each new school will have a capacity of 804 children.

"H" will be built southwest of the intersection of New Town and Waxhaw-Indian Trail Roads.

Some children currently assigned to Kensington, Weddington, Western Union and Wesley Chapel elementaries will attend the new school under the plan.

Children at "H" will head to either Weddington middle and high schools or Parkwood middle and high schools. That split falls along the current Weddington Middle/Parkwood Middle boundary. (To look at the existing middle and high school boundary, visit www.ucps.k12.nc.us for maps).

"I" will be built northeast of the intersection of Rocky River and Weddington roads. Children proposed to attend "I" include some students from Shiloh, Walter Bickett, Wesley Chapel and Western Union elementaries. Students at "I" living in the current Parkwood middle and high boundary will attend those schools; the rest of the children will head to Sun Valley middle and high schools.

Now that school staff has presented the plan, the school board will review it, make comments and vote at an upcoming meeting.

About a dozen parents were in the audience Thursday night, and a few cringed when they heard which elementaries will feed into which high schools.

A public hearing on the proposed plan is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. May 30 at Weddington High School.

The school board is expected to vote on the assignment plan at a meeting June 6 at Parkwood High School.

What It Means for Parents

Want to learn more about what's proposed? Maps of the plan are available on the schools' Web site: www.ucps.k12.nc.us

Who's Going Where

ASSIGNED TO ELEMENTARY "H"

From Kensington Elementary Champion Forest, Fairfax Farms, Stonegate.

From Weddington Elementary

Berkley Pointe, Hollister, Ivey Hill, Shannon Woods.

From Western Union Elementary

Shannon Ranchettes, Shannon Vista, Oakhill Plantation, Briarcrest North, Briarcrest South, Pleasant Grove, Tuscany.

From Wesley Chapel Elementary

Bel-Air Estates, Berkshire, Demere, East Hampton, Goldmine Acres, Hollister, New Town Acres, New Towne Village, Oakgrove Farm, Saratoga Woods, Silver Creek, Wesley Oaks, Wesley Springs.

ASSIGNED TO ELEMENTARY "I"

From Shiloh Elementary

Blvd. Park (Kempsar), Cornerstone, Colonial Village, Club View Acres, Dogwood Acres, Helms Park, Pondside, Woodbrook.

From Walter Bickett Elementary

Bearskin Place, Brightland Run, Glen Eagles, Gold Mine Hills, Hasty Woods, Long Brooke, Meadowview Acres, Pinedell, Rocky River Estates, Serenity Hills, Seven Oaks, The Pines, Trull Place, Westfield, Willoughby Woods, Windy Ridge.

From Wesley Chapel Elementary

Greenwood Acres, St. Johns Forest, Villages of Wesley Chapel, Weddington Ridge, Winding Creek.

From Western Union Elementary

New Town Acres II, Newtowne Estates.

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Source: The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)

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