Middle School Feeders

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Quality Middle Schools/K8 Feeder Patterns

On June 14th 2011 the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously approved a new student assignment process for middle school enrollment that includes elementary-to-middle school K8 feeder patterns.

Between 2012 and 2017 the choice process for middle school assignment will have younger siblings as the first preference, followed by a preference for students enrolled in an elementary school that is one of the K8 feeder schools, and then a preference for students living in areas of the city with the lowest average test scores (known as CTIP1).  These preferences, known as tiebreakers, will be used when the number of requests for a school is greater than the number of seats available.

Students will be assigned to their highest ranked request as long as there is space at the school.  If there are more students applying than there are openings at a school, choice assignments will be made by looking to all the possible combinations of tie-breakers in the following hierarchical order:

1 Siblings

younger siblings of students who are enrolled in and will be attending the school during the year for which the younger sibling requests attendance

2 Middle school feeder (this only applies to 6th grade)

requests from students enrolled in an elementary school that feeds into the requested middle school

3 NCLB/Open Enrollment (this does not apply to 6th grade)

Students who attend a Program Improvement or Open Enrollment school as identified by State and Federal guidelines

4 Test score area

students who live in areas of the city with the lowest average test scores

5 No tie-breakers

students who do not have a tie-breaker

If these tie-breakers do not resolve ties, then ties will be resolved by random lottery.

This phase in process will be effective for the 2012-2016 school years. Beginning in 2017, the process will change to an initial assignment into the feeder middle school.  Students exiting 5th grade will receive an initial 6th grade offer to their feeder school before the middle school choice process begins.

Will there be transportation to support middle school feeders?

• We will provide limited transportation to support our elementary to middle school feeders.

• While the entire plan will not be finalized until February 2012, we will provide the following transportation services to middle school in 2012-13.

• It is unclear whether additional middle school services will be available; current services in other areas may be reduced in 2012-13.  More information will be available by February 2012.

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