NBC29Waynesboro Leaders Examine School Redistricting Plans
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Waynesboro's biggest, and most crowded, elementary school needs some relief. That's why city leaders are taking an early look at plans for redistricting.
The city council and school board gathered Tuesday evening with several heavy issues on the table: funding woes, the No Child Left Behind Act and redistricting.
Drawing new boundary lines around Waynesboro’s four primary schools would take some students out of Westwood Hills Elementary. Every classroom at Westwood Hills is full. The pre-k program has already moved to two other schools. Next year, other classes could suffer.
Waynesboro Superintendent Robin Crowder said, “If the kids continue to come, we'll either have to have music on a cart or art on a cart, because we don't have any more classrooms.”
Many of the 520 students here live in the fast-growing west end of Waynesboro.
Doug Norcross of the Redistricting Committee said, “Most of the land that's available for development is in that Westwood district, so as that grows its over-populating Westwood and then we have other open rooms in other schools.”
William Perry, Berkeley Glenn, and perhaps Wenonah Elementary could all get some former Westwood students under proposed redistricting. A panel of school leaders and citizens will help draw new boundary lines and present them to parents around the end of the year.
Norcross said, “I think most of them realize we have to do something because we just don't have the money now to add classrooms.”
Crowder stated, “We could add some mobile units. But I’m not sure that's in the best interests for our community the taxpayers, when I might have a room or two at Berkeley Glenn, and a room or two at William Perry.”
The superintendent says parents and students who find themselves outside the Westwood district line would have several chances to visit their new teachers and schools.
Waynesboro sent redistricting surveys out to parents and is still working through the results. The superintendent says that will help them draw the new district lines, which should be finalized in January.
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