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STEELE CREEK NEWS

New School Attendance Boundaries Adopted

(November 16, 2008) At its November 12 meeting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board adopted attendance boundaries for the three new elementary schools opening is Steele Creek over the next two years. (See Elementary School Attendance Zones map in PDF format.) The school board also changed middle and high school boundaries to move the Berewick area in the Kennedy Middle School and Olympic High School attendance zones.

The three new elementary schools have temporary names. Parents and other area residents will have an opportunity to meet and propose formal names for school board consideration  in the spring before they open.

A description of the new boundaries is as follows:

New Dixie River Road Elementary School

The New Dixie River Road Elementary School is located on Dixie River Road within the new Berewick Regional Park. (At the on the map below. See WikiMapia Locator.) It is scheduled to open in fall 2009. (See CMS Construction Update.)

The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department will operate a recreation center in the school's gym. Bond money from the 2008 Park and Rec bonds will help pay for this facility.

The new attendance area includes Berewick and other areas north of Berewick that currently are within the Berryhill Elementary School attendance zone. It also includes other areas north of Westinghouse Boulevard and west of Steele Creek that currently are within the Steele Creek Elementary School attendance zone. These include the Stowe Creek, Steele Creek Subdivision, Steele Oaks-Braddock Green, and Cedarbrook neighborhoods. 

If all students within this boundary attend the New Dixie River Road Elementary School, it is projected to be at 87% capacity when it opens in fall 2009 and at 97% capacity in fall 2010 (without mobiles).

Steele Creek Elementary School

In addition to losing students living west of Steele Creek and south of Brown-Grier Road to the New Dixie River Road Elementary School, Steele Creek Elementary School will lose students in the Twelve Oaks and TaraGate neighborhoods to Lake Wylie Elementary School. Steele Creek Elementary School is projected to go from 206% capacity this school year to 128% capacity in fall 2009 and 129% capacity in fall 2010.

New Youngblood/Steele Creek Road Elementary School

The New Youngblood/Steele Creek Road Elementary School is located on the corner of Hamilton Road and Smith Road (At the on the map below. See WikiMapia Locator.) It is scheduled to open in fall 2009. (See CMS Construction Update.)

Its attendance zone generally will include areas east of Youngblood and Zoar Roads, south of S Tryon Street, west of Moss Road, and north of the South Carolina state line, including the Creekshire neighborhood and excluding Lions Gate and Savannah Townhomes. 

If all students within this boundary attend the New Youngblood/Steele Creek Road Elementary School, it is projected to be at 98% capacity when it opens in fall 2009 and at 105% capacity in fall 2010 (without mobiles).

Lake Wylie Elementary School

Lake Wylie Elementary School will lose students from Yorkshire and other areas along Choate Circle and gain students from the Twelve Oaks and TaraGate neighborhoods.

Lake Wylie Elementary School is projected to go from 139% capacity this school year to 109% capacity in fall 2009.

New York Road/Red Fez Club Road Elementary School

The New York Road/Red Fez Club Road Elementary School is located just east of Grand Palisades Parkway adjacent to the Palisades community. (At the on the map below. See WikiMapia Locator.) It is scheduled to open in fall 2010. (See CMS Construction Update.) Students assigned to this new school will continue to attend Winget Park Elementary School during the 2009-2010 school year.

It will be located on the south end of a parcel of land recently acquired by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. A high school (projected to open in 2012) will be located on the north end of this parcel. The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department plans to build a neighborhood park on the school site that will be funded by bond money from the 2008 Park and Rec bonds.

Its attendance zone will include RiverPointe and other areas south of McDowell Nature Preserve. It also will include neighborhoods located between Shopton Road West and Steele Creek Road as far north as Waterlyn and neighborhoods west of Youngblood and Zoar Roads, excluding Creekshire.

If all students within this boundary attend the New York Road/Red Fez Club Road Elementary School, it is projected to be at 94% capacity when it opens in fall 2010 (without mobiles).

Winget Park Elementary School

For the 2009-2010 school year, Winget Park Elementary School will lose students living south of S Tryon Street in neighborhoods along Steele Creek Road and Hamilton Road to the new Youngblood/Steele Creek Road Elementary School, and for the 2010-2011 school year it will lose students who will be reassigned to the New York Road/Red Fez Club Road Elementary School.

Winget Park Elementary School is projected to go from 155% capacity this school year to 143% capacity in fall 2009 and 75% capacity in fall 2010.

Kennedy Middle School and Olympic High School

The attendance zones for Kennedy Middle School and Olympic High School were revised so that students from the New Dixie River Road Elementary School will feed into Kennedy and Olympic. The Berewick area currently is within the attendance zones for Wilson Middle School and West Mecklenburg High School. (See Middle School Attendance Zones map and High School Attendance Zones map in PDF format.)

Future School Construction

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Ten-Year Plan for Capital Projects includes one additional middle school and one additional high school in the Palisades area of Steele Creek. The new high school is projected to open in 2012 and will be located adjacent to the New York Road/Red Fez Club Road Elementary School. (See WikiMapia Locator.) The new middle school is projected to open in  fall 2013. A site for this school has not yet been announced.

No additional public elementary schools are planned in Steele Creek through 2017. As growth continues in Steele Creek, schools will continue to be overcrowded and stretch capacities.

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