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Combined Notes

Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

• Community and supports for ������ϲʿ�����and families (students/families not felling othered but rather celebrated in the school)
• Support for ������ϲʿ�����in Spanish and the dual language program as well as English language development support
• Caring teachers who look like our kids
• Easy access to transportation
• Family connection center
• Safe schools (no gangs/fights)
• Communication with principal(s) and teacher(s)

Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors are important that you think we should consider?

• Bring ������ϲʿ�����together as a cohort
• Bring some of the same teachers along with the students
• Provide transportation
• Provide socioemotional support for ������ϲʿ�����who need to move and the ones receiving them
• Create a sense of belonging/community
• Keep the dual language program

Question 3: What questions do you have?

• When will this decision be made?
• How will the community be informed about what is happening?
• Does our voice really count?
• Will classes become larger if we close schools?

Summary

Responses to Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

Not applicable

Responses to Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors do you think we should consider?

The participants in this forum were agreed on a handful of themes that included:

• A lack of confidence in the data
  • A local hospital’s website says birthrates went up, not down.
  • Closing schools causes decreased enrollment.
• ������ϲʿ�����’s competitiveness
  • Closing down Advanced Learning will cause parents to leave the district.
  • Closing our schools reduces our competitiveness.
• Student focus
  • Concern that consolidating will hurt student’s social emotional well-being.
  • Students should be invited to the school board meeting to tell their stories.

Responses to Question 3: What questions do you have?

• The enrollment for Tyee is up, yet the data says the utilization is down. Why?
• Can more information about the budget – and how it affects this decision – be shared?
• How will we manage student/teacher ratios if we lose teachers?

Combined Notes

Question 1: To best utilize district resources, should we consider consolidating a school or continue to operate five schools with reduced resources and programming?

• In the data, are we including only Bellevue-resident ������ϲʿ�����or is this data including open enrollment students? A lot of families outside Bellevue chose to come to Tyee and Sammamish – there was a big population movement from Issaquah district to Bellevue. I am concerned with consolidation; it will increase school size in some schools and Issaquah residents already enrolled in ������ϲʿ����� will be forced to disenroll in the future.
• We have concerns about consolidation because we have seen the impacts from the elementary school consolidation. Impacted ������ϲʿ�����and families feel not heard, not adjusting to new school because they feel far away (not in their neighborhood anymore), reduced bus service is really hard on the ������ϲʿ�����and families. Also, ������ϲʿ����� announced that there will be emotional supports and counselors, but for many students, they have not felt supported or accessible. What is the district’s real plan?
• This year, a lot of ������ϲʿ�����came from outside Bellevue. My neighborhood falls very closely between Issaquah and Bellevue district, and as ������ϲʿ����� opened up spots, there was big population movement from Issaquah district to Bellevue (Tyee middle school and Sammamish). If consolidation happens, will the Issaquah district ������ϲʿ�����will be kicked out ? Can we actively enroll more ������ϲʿ�����from outside of Bellevue and continue having 5 schools open without having to reduce resources?
• I want to know the purpose of this consolidation study. Are we finalizing to decide to think student number issue is a fact and making this consolidation study? Even the data seems too soon to determine. We could need to consolidate in many years later, but we cannot do that now because it will be too chaotic! Can we approach this as a long-term project? The enrolled ������ϲʿ�����already form good bond with their friends, and it is hard to break that based on the data and 7-10 years futures’ projection.

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Question 2: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

• Education and activity opportunities are important. My oldest child went to Chinook and had enriched club, after school activities, and field trips. This year, my youngest one is not having much of that enriched experience due to shortages. This has reduced the quality of experience for the child. Also, ������ϲʿ�����are worried that clubs they are actively involved will be gone next year. They put a lot of effort and love doing it and it will be very unfortunate to lose those opportunities.
• Diverse experience is important. Students in my child’s school is already having rumors that their school is at risk of closing. Our children and their friends are worrying a lot. The programs they are worried that their programs they are involved will be closing, and their clubs will no longer be available. For example, since Olde and Tyee both has Advance Learning program, and if district decides to close one of those schools, would that mean that the opportunity for their Advance Learning will be gone? Enriched social interaction they have now will be gone if schools are consolidated. For middle schoolers, friendship is most important and if ������ϲʿ�����will be located to different schools, it will be impacting their middle school experience negatively.
• There are teacher dependent clubs. If the resources are reduced, how will it affect all these clubs??
• Transparency of decision making!!! Last year, Enatai was one of the elementary schools to be closed but they did not. Rumors are because they are in rich neighborhood. There was not much transparency or announcement from ������ϲʿ�����. Nowhere on the website says the logistics behind decision making. To avoid rumors, we want to know CLEARLY the decision points.

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Question 3: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors are important that you think we should consider?

• OUR STUDENTS!!!! They are in their sensitive time of life where social and emotional support is important. They would not want to be separated from their friends and teachers that they have already created a bond with.
• Geographically, Highland and Odle are very close, and these two seem like to be the most affected school from this consolidation result if it will happen. Does that mean these two schools will combine?
• If so, what will be the boundary of school? Will it be combining these two schools? Or will the boundary be affected?
• Will the transportation issue be covered? We are struggling this year already with School bus service. We don’t have transportation available every day and it is already an added struggle to families. Currently, after the consolidation, elementary school ������ϲʿ�����take more than an hour to get to school which is too long.
• This year, a lot of ������ϲʿ�����came from outside Bellevue. My neighborhood falls very closely between Issaquah and Bellevue district, and as ������ϲʿ����� opened up spots, there was big population movement from Issaquah district to Bellevue (Tyee middle school and Sammamish). If consolidation happens, will the Issaquah district ������ϲʿ�����be kicked out?
• Once we are consolidated, will we have the transportation issues covered? My child was affected by the elementary school consolidation last year, and because of the shortage of drivers it has become very uncomfortable to commute to school.
• What are the factors in choosing which school to close?

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Question 4: What questions do you have?

• Is the reduced student population issue an overall reduction or is this happening in specific location or school? What is the reduction rate of each school?
• If we keep 5 schools, are we going to have more limited learning opportunities? Can you explain what kinds of services will be impacted?
• Will the change happen right away starting next school year? It would be nice to make the gradual change so that it would be an easier transition.
• For last year’s elementary school consolidation, there was not a clear explanation behind the logistics why certain schools closed. There are rumors that schools in rich neighborhood (Enatai) was one of the candidates but it did not close. Without clear
• If we do the open enrollment, wouldn’t it only help the popular schools remain and non-preferred school to get consolidated?
• If the schools get consolidated, will the specific features of those schools be gone as well? Each school seems to have clubs that has significant importance to each school. Will this be also gone? It will be so negatively impactful to students.
• Are we absolutely not thinking about consolidating the choice schools? Are these schools out of discussion?
• My child’s school does not have room to accommodate all ������ϲʿ�����and uses multiple portable classrooms. If the school utility rate shows it is low already, can we use those spaces instead of the portables? Or is this overall usage? I would appreciate to know the utility rate of individual schools.
• Will we be talking about high school consolidation in the next few years??
• I live in the neighborhood which school gotten closed down last year (Eastgate). I have seen a lot of sad elementary ������ϲʿ�����then and still unable to cope with their loss.
• Friends are separated, teachers are no longer there. Passing over I-90 feels too far and they do not feel connected to the new school. They were told there would be social emotional support, but it does not seem to be very supportive, nor do ������ϲʿ�����find it helpful. It is already a sad loss and i am very concerned we are having this conversation again for the middle schoolers. Middle school is the time friendship is more firm and bonding gets strong. The district says there will be social emotional support. But can you tell us what kind of support you are planning?
• When Wilburton closed down, they let the 5th graders remain so that they could finish as 5th grade cohort together. I think that was helpful to that grade. Can such transition be supported if consolidation has to happen??

Combined Notes

Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

• Advanced learning programs to support students.
• Quality of education to prepare for college (math, English.)
• Opportunities for electives (robotics and rocketry).
• 7^th grader starting at Odle last year, the adjustment from elementary to middle was hard. If there is a consolidation, I want him to be minimally impacted by school changes. Middle school are tough years for a lot of kids. How do we make sure he is supported, and all ������ϲʿ�����are supported in a
• First year in ������ϲʿ�����, daughter at Tyee and in 5^th – came from Seattle – saw problems with declining enrollment and problems when that wasn’t addressed. Our previous middle school lost a lot of teachers and programs.
• Like his teachers a lot, some exceptional teachers, passionate about ������ϲʿ�����and enjoy teaching.
• Prefer to attend Odle because of the AL program, administrative staff is friendly and welcoming to students. Wanting to maintain the friend.
• Nonresident group; just moved this year and a choice transfer, but was a prior a ������ϲʿ����� student. The choice transfer is a great option, closer than home school. Just started about 2 months ago. Will this impact them as a transfer back to home school; being unstable is a concern?
• Environment and best academic environment. Feel like they are settled; especially for middle school; very important to stable environment during this move from childhood to teenagers.
• Odle is a top-ranking school across of the nation; might impact.

Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors are important that you think we should consider?

• Student to teacher ratio.
• What is best for the future students? Distance to school.
• My child spends 40 minutes on the bus per trip, we are happy with that program – I think that will be longer if we consolidate – that should be considered.
• First year in ������ϲʿ�����, just moved into the area, my son is a 5^th grader – he is in AL program now at Somerset. Transportation is an issue for us too – right now he doesn’t have a bus – I drop him off and pick him up.
• My kids are in AL – this was our number one reason for choosing ������ϲʿ����� when we moved. We’ve been happy with the level of education for our middle schooler. We also chose ������ϲʿ����� for the 7-period day – not offered everywhere – we value this a lot. My kids like to do foreign language and music – you need a 7-period day to fit this and other things in. Gives you the space for exploration without sacrificing what you want to do in the long term.
• Make sure kids can get to school – we don’t have enough buses now – how can we make sure all kids can get to school if we consolidate?
• Course continuity – in Seattle, they cut French from 8^th grade after she’d taken it in 6^th and 7^th, and that was really frustrating for my child – would want to make sure there is continuity of course work for students.
• My child is at Odle – to have the least impact on the most number of students, don’t close Odle.
• Advanced learning is least the same number who have like-minded students; they are humbler when
• Continue non-resident through the middle
• Keep neighborhood school.
• Does the standards of each school the same if our school is closed.
• Can the choice schools be considered along with comprehensive middle schools?

Question 3: What questions do you have?

• What other considerations have been made other than consolidating a middle school?
• How are property taxes used to fund the school district? They keep increasing.
• Be more transparent: What is the cost per student, what amount do we receive per student from the state, what is the cost per school?
• What is the alternative to consolidating the school?
• What studies have been done to eliminate this consolidation factor? To reduce the impact on the students.
• What assumptions are being made in the enrollment data about housing? How does this align with the city’s active process to increase housing? (Question from city council member)
• Are there other programs that can be added that would bring new ������ϲʿ�����into the school system and increase enrollment? How can we increase the revenue (we are only focusing on the expense).
• Who is making this decision? What led to this option?
• What would the transportation to the gifted program look like if we consolidated a middle school?
• Are you going to cancel the gifted program if we consolidate?
• How soon do we anticipate there will be a consolidation?
• When looking at the chart of the 8^th grade class and projected 9^th grade class – the 8^th grade class is a lot smaller than the 9^th grade class – where are we projecting that ������ϲʿ�����are coming from? Are they non-resident students?
• How would this happen?
• What would this look like?
• What are the top factors that would be considered?
• Why was the information not shared earlier shared with the community about the declining environment?
• Why does them so sudden for such a large impact?
• What is the impact on the choice schools?
• How did the pandemic impact the drop of enrollment?
• Did the district overspend during the pandemic that impacted our budget?

Summary

Responses to Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

The participants in this forum surfaced the following themes:

• High quality education – this is why people move to Bellevue.
• Course offerings and extra-curricular activities
  • Advanced learning – keeping intact at Odle.
  • Electives.
  • Variety.
  • Clubs.
• Student connections.
  • Friendships.
  • Social, emotional wellbeing.

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Responses to Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors do you think we should consider?

The priorities that this group centered on were:

• Maintaining manageable class size.
• Keeping peer cohorts together.
• Transportation.
  • Bus routes.
  • Commute times.
  • Drop off schedule.

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Responses to Question 3: What questions do you have?

There were many questions from participants. A full list of the questions can be found in the combined notes below. Several of the questions fell into the following categories:

• What will happen to Advanced Learning?
  • How will we maintain quality?
  • Will it become part of the neighborhood schools and how would that affect teachers?
  • What is the plan and timeline?
• How will ������ϲʿ�����be affected?
  • Will they stay with their peers?
  • Will they be able to access the electives they want?
  • What will class size be like?

Combined Notes

Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

• Build solid academic foundation for success in high school through quality teachers who are passionate about their subject and providing a challenging environment to learn.
• Safe place for ������ϲʿ�����to feel mentally and physically safe.
• Being able to differentiate the services that ������ϲʿ�����need (ex: AL program)
• Additional programming such as band, video production, and Spanish immersion to align to their interests.
• Resources to support all students, such as advanced math classes and athletic interests.
• Electives helps ������ϲʿ�����be excited to be at school.
• Mental health supports including counselors to provide ������ϲʿ�����someone to speak to.
• Stability to provide emotional and mental supports.
• Friendship and support at the school
• For middle school, would like daughter to continue to be challenged academically.�� Safe and supportive environment, with friends and teachers
• For middle school, it would be nice to have different clubs and different extracurricular activities.
• Would like to see AL program advance as it is right now.�� Don’t want to see it sent back to schools.�� Not the same experience as it is in the same cohort where ������ϲʿ�����can discuss ideas with each other.
• Most important thing is friendship.
• Music is critical, happy with the clubs.
• Good learning experience, middle school is such critical academically and socially so important to be prepped well.
• Stay with their peers, keep AL together, transitions are hard, and some ������ϲʿ�����don’t feel as welcome to the AL ������ϲʿ�����at their new elementary school. AL ������ϲʿ�����staying together. Super important for them to stay together and ready for IB at Interlake.
• Proper lunch times are important, time of day of lunch, too many lunches (3 is too many), need more time at lunch to eat, worry this will get worse with consolidation.
• After school programs important. Odle soccer and other clubs is important and that they are open to all students.
• Want to have elective courses and variety. Unique courses: ceramics, engineering.
• Worry about having portables at the buildings. Class sizes are too big. Main purpose of schools is education. It’s hard for ������ϲʿ�����to make new friends and so please keep them together.
• One 6^th grade and one 3^rd grade student, the friendships, the ability to spend time together, the learning, the rigor.
• Looking for quality of the programs, variety, ratio of educator to kids, AL program has been a challenge when moved, closer to the home, and keeping the program.
• CC students, 1^st generation immigrant, come because ������ϲʿ����� has best schools in the country, get into the AL program, are smart, CC is one of the best schools, test schools, environment, safety, best learning experience in terms of programs, in the neighborhood, rarely hear anything bad, kids are hanging out with other kids in the same neighborhood, share similar interests, ex. Math club, can do it together, good quality classmates, buy a house and look at greatschool.com, test score of the school, don’t take it too important, but shows some of the basics of the school, Odle is another great school, BHS and Interlake is another great school.�� Test scores and college admission rates, those are the things I care about, regardless of the level of the school, if there is going to be consolidation, want to make sure it continues to have the same quality, don’t know the consolidation and what the impact would be to the school, and what is the impact to the AL program, by default they would go to Odle, but don’t know where it would go to, if it happens that the AL program has to move to a different school, will care about the similar qualities of that school, will they have the same test scores, similar interests, some other not so great schools in other district, want the same good qualities all around, may have good.

Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors are important that you think we should consider?

• How will this affect class sizes?�� For elementary consolidation from 24 ������ϲʿ�����to up to 30 students
• Maintain teachers with ������ϲʿ�����of the schools consolidated.
• Location- consider how this will affect student travel to school (bus routes).
• Programming offerings:�� if they are not available at different schools, how will we meet all ������ϲʿ�����interests and needs?
• Can we provide options for friend groups together to make sure that there is emotional and social support?
• Read consolidation of elementary had over 30 kids per classroom.�� Worried kids would be left behind.
• Think it’s important to make sure teachers and ������ϲʿ�����get the support they need.
• Student/teacher ratio.�� Make sure teachers have enough help to support all ������ϲʿ�����in the classroom.
• Once there is change, it will affect the emotional wellbeing of kids.�� Will be important to have not only teacher resources, but also counselors.�� Make sure we have enough counselor support.
• With the addition of more ������ϲʿ�����at one school, will there be a staggered drop off?�� It will be important to have easy access to drop off and pick-up.�� Right now, it’s really hard to get into Odle (drop off).�� Consider block scheduling, staggered schedule.
• Peers move with peers, friends stay together.
• Would want the breadth and depth of elective choices to remain the same.
• Property values.

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Question 3: What questions do you have?

• Seems like there are two conversations, one about middle school consolidation and one about the advanced learning program.�� Why are we talking about advanced learning? (another parent responded to this question and said they AL ������ϲʿ�����and families weren’t prepared last year when we consolidated elementary schools)
• Want to hear how the AL program is being affected.�� What is plan and timeline for all the changes?
• Will they switch to A, B, C track (different groups go different times of the year – e.g. one group goes 3 months on, 1 month off; another group goes a different 3 months with 1 month off)?�� Please don’t do that!
• Where will the ������ϲʿ�����go?�� Will they stay in same school?�� Will they move their peer groups?
• In BHS, heard people have issue getting the elective classes they want, wonder if middle school will have same concerns.�� Concerns about availability of some electives
• Would district consider opening more lottery spots for International School?�� Would help alleviate potential overcrowding if we do consolidate.
• Concerned about combining middle school ������ϲʿ�����with high school students.�� Thinking about if AL would get sent to high school. Don’t want to mix 8^th grade AL ������ϲʿ�����with high schoolers.
• What will class sizes be like?
• What will happen to the AL quality if we separate them?
• Last two slides that were shared, for the projection data, what saw for the current enrollment and projected enrollment for 6-8 grade, the current enrollment are all higher than the projected enrollment, what makes think the projected is accurate?�� How can you use this to make the decision? Are to consolidate the schools, what is the impact to the teachers and the schools consolidate for next year, not talking about 2030, talking about 2024.�� With more being allocated to one school, is there enough facilities and educators to support them?
• Accepting non-resident students, and consolidate, would they continue to accept the non-resident students, and the data is biased.�� If this part of the ������ϲʿ�����is increasing in enrollment.
• What is the plan if there is an increase or the demographics change, to make sure that the right level of education is there?
• How quickly can we shift?
• If AL programs are considered to be in neighborhood programs, how does the teacher of the AL section do that work, and how does that impact the program?

Summary

Responses to Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

The participants in the online forum consistently said that class size or student to teacher ratio is important to them. Specifically, they want lower class sizes and manageable ratios for ������ϲʿ�����to get support. In addition, the range of offerings for electives and extra-curricular activities was mentioned several times. Transportation or drive times were also a priority for this group. Safety and security, while mentioned less, were also a priority for the participants.

Responses to Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors do you think we should consider?

The number of responses to this question in the notes were too small to make generalizations. What did appear aligned with the responses to question 1, around transportation, and safety.

Responses to Question 3: What questions do you have?

Questions were wide-ranging and all can be found below in the combined notes for the meeting. A few were somewhat aligned around the student transfer data, the non-resident ������ϲʿ�����and Big Picture and International School. In addition, participants wanted to know how many middle schools we are considering closing and whether there will be another opportunity to weigh in on where their ������ϲʿ�����will transfer to. These questions are similar to those raised in other forums.

• Why aren’t Big Picture and International included in the demographer’s report? Will they be part of this decision making?
• How will non-resident ������ϲʿ�����be considered in this decision-making? Will they be forced to leave, or will they transfer in ������ϲʿ�����?
• How many schools are you considering consolidating?
• Will parents have an opportunity to decide where their ������ϲʿ�����go to school?

Combined Notes

Question 1: What aspects of the middle school experience are most important to you/your student?

• The variety of electives available are important to me for middle school, as well as classroom size. Interested in maintaining access to electives in language, science, tech, music, art, CTE.
• Smaller classrooms, leading to better student-teacher ratio. Good facilities including after school sports and non-sports activities.��Core subjects should be under 25 or under 20 students, especially math and science.
• Interest in after school activities and sports include Badminton, basketball, soccer. ideally group sports – to encourage team play.
• Other two kids were impacted by closure at Eastgate. Involved in all meetings and surveys last year. Recall this. Would value and prioritize not having too many ������ϲʿ�����in the class. Know that middle school classes tend to be larger than elem. How does that work when a middle school gets consolidated, how will ������ϲʿ�����be allocated. One concern last year was about friends and teachers. Kids in special programs, what happens to the teachers. AL moved out of Spiritridge. How would that happen in MS, can’t really move an entire middle school into another middle school because of size. Want ������ϲʿ�����to have 1:1 help or assistance. Drive time is a concern. Having same amount of class choices for electives and extracurriculars. Already competitive now. Signups get full really quickly for Jubilee. When more ������ϲʿ�����attend, how does that impact signups for ������ϲʿ�����who want to participate. Think about class size and overall school size?
• Hearing ������ϲʿ�����says they’re worried they won’t have assemblies because too many students. Biggest concern from ������ϲʿ�����is will there be enough room?
• Concerned about student/teacher ratio. That would be priority for me. Even if rotation of assembly meetings, the ratio of student/teacher is what will provide best educational opportunities for student learning experience. Athletic offering is also a priority (does work for ������ϲʿ����� A&A)…don’t want to see athletic offering go away or have it be encumbered. When enrollment goes down, chance for sport to go down. That won’t change; its up to size of people who sign up then random drawing. Would be nice to offer even more because of social emotional benefit of athletics.
• Appreciate opportunity to have voices heard. Class size – yes, student/teacher ratio – yes. Also want to add…we need to consider equitable access to MS. Think political needs get involved in these decisions. Have a group of ������ϲʿ�����who need to get themselves to school walking, make sure that schools chosen have lots of different transportation options.
• Concern about safety…how big will middle schools get. Will there be a resource officer? Who is available at middle schools in way of officers like we’ve had in the past. Is safety a part of the conversation?
• Having activities where kids can come together and be social.
• Student to teacher ratio
• Somerset PTSA
• Utilization
  • After elementary consolidation, Somerset is now using two portables.
  • Now, we’re over 100% utilization.
• Challenge to run after-school programs.
  • Avoid this issue with middle schools.
• The district projected lower enrollment.
• 14% ������ϲʿ�����went to private school last year – Consolidation.
• We live 4 minutes from Somerset, but now my daughter goes to Spiritridge. We’re happy there.
  • When we moved here, we thought we were going to be in Eastgate.

Question 2: If we were to consolidate one middle school, what priorities or factors are important that you think we should consider?

• Transportation, safety and security
• Class size, student/teacher ratio, equitable access, make sure most marginalized populations aren’t the ones who suffer the most.

Question 3: What questions do you have?

• Hard to know what questions to ask or concerns to have if we don’t know what the proposal is.
• If the chat/Q/A gets enabled, will add…last week when demographer reports were emailed to families, spent a lot of time going through each slide. From going through process last year, it was miserable. It will go a long way that there is way more transparency this time. This is much a different experience. When looked at demographer findings, wondering why for the slide that says, neither BP or Int’l numbers are being considered…wondering why.
  • Why aren’t Big Picture and International numbers included in the demographers’ reports?
  • Why aren’t the 980 non-resident ������ϲʿ�����reflected in the stats?
  • Would like to see both BP and Int’l and non-resident numbers included in projections.
• When we consolidate, are those non-resident ������ϲʿ�����getting kicked out of school district? If we’re worried about ratios, overcrowding, and equitable access, what happens to the 980 students? What is the thought process there?
• Of the 980 non-residents, how many are attending BP or Int’l?
• Once the recommendation is made, is there going to be an opportunity for parents on boundary line to choose? When you have a student in a group of friends, the social part of school is really important. Would be nice to have opportunity to keep that social piece together.
• Slide in demo report, “Where have ������ϲʿ�����transferred?” The data on that one slide tells interesting story, In 20-21, the numbers are really high of ������ϲʿ�����who moved out of ������ϲʿ����� to another WA district — ~800ish and next year was ~700ish.
• Is there a target for utilization?
• How many middle schools are you planning to reduce? I have heard that you are considering combining the ISA with the dual language Spanish programs in middle school. Is this true? How would this affect the ISA program?
• Please quantify the 14% of private school.
• Do you know yet which schools you’re considering closing?
• What are the top three factors that will impact the decision?