STEELE
CREEK NEWS
Attendance
Boundary Adopted for New Middle School
(December 15,
2002) At its December 10, 2002 meeting, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
School Board adopted home-school boundaries for three new schools
that are scheduled to open in August 2003. One of these is the new,
informally named Southwest Middle School located on Steele Creek Road (Hwy
160) just north of S. Tryon Street/York Road (Hwy 49).
Click on map for larger image.
The new boundary
splits the current Kennedy Middle School attendance area in two. The
new middle school attendance area will include all of the current
Lake Wylie and Nations Ford Elementary School attendance areas plus
that portion of the Steele Creek Elementary School attendance area
east of S. Tryon Street and south of Arrowood Road. The remainder of
the Steele Creek Elementary School attendance area will comprise the
Kennedy Middle School attendance area. Students in the Nations Ford
Elementary School attendance area will have to travel farther to the
new middle school than they would to Kennedy Middle School, but
including them in the new school's attendance area contributes to
the diversity of the new school's student population.
Below is the
projected enrollment of the two middle schools within elementary
school areas:
Middle
School Attendance Areas with Elementary School Feeder
Areas |
Projected Population Using 02-03 20th Day
Enrollment |
Additional Students from Growth |
Total Students with Growth |
Capacity |
New Southwest Middle
School |
|
|
|
|
Lake Wylie Elementary |
351 |
45 |
396 |
|
Nations Ford Elementary |
209 |
3 |
212 |
|
Steele Creek Elementary (E. of S. Tryon St.) |
41 |
7 |
48 |
|
Total |
601 |
55 |
656 |
1200 |
|
|
|
|
|
Kennedy Middle School |
|
|
|
|
Steele Creek Elementary (W. of S. Tryon St.) |
433 |
44 |
477 |
|
Total |
433 |
44 |
477 |
792 |
The new school is
projected to be at 55% capacity when it opens. It should have about
650 students in a building able to hold 1,200 students. Its
attendance area includes the new Palisades development, which is
expected to add many students to the school's enrollment in the coming years.
Kennedy Middle
School has a projected enrollment of just under 500 students, which
would be 60% of its 792 capacity. The boundary between the Kennedy
Middle School and Wilson Middle School attendance areas splits the
planned new Berewyck development west of Steele Creek Road along
Dixie River Road. That boundary must be adjusted once new houses are
built and occupied, and the Berewyck development may contribute to the
Kennedy Middle School enrollment.
All middle school
students within the two schools' attendance zones are guaranteed
seats in those schools. However, they may request assignment to
other schools through the student choice plan, and students from
outside the area can request to attend these schools.
The principal for
the new middle school should be named in early 2003. The School
Board will select a permanent school name before school starts next
August.
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