CMS released the boundary map that it will recommend to the board of education Tuesday. It calls for most of Mint Hill high school students to go to Independence High School, while the new high school will pull from north east Charlotte.
Final Mint Hill high school staff recommended boundary map released by CMS
This is a good deal for Mint Hill. My kids began their educational journey at Barringer Elementary, a magnet school for talent development. Old buildings, interesting community. The school was a smashing success, dependent not on bricks and mortar, but on parents and involvement. I predict the same for new Indy.
129% capacity at Indy. You have got to be kidding me. When these new boundaries take effect the school will be at full capacity. There is absolutely zero room for growth when the areas going here are high growth zones. the piint of building a new school is to relieve over crowding. Indy will have trailers upon trailers and the new school will sit under capacpity forever.
Totally ridiculous!!
This is a bad plan for Clear Creek parents and home owners as it moves students from under-achieving Garinger HS where the child / class ratio is @ 16 per class and dumps those same low performing students into 26-30 per class. Simply hoping that placing high poverty children with in a new school will not change their ability to learn. An 81% minority school? Where am I living, in Bedford-Styvestant? If CMS plans to challenge reality, why not bring one high poverty neighborhood into the new school and see if it succeeds. Otherwise, you’re making a 2nd Garinger – from the start. Garinger unfortunately grew into its’ sad current state over a twenty plus year socio-econmic bubble burst. It now at stands at 91% minority. Perhaps that is the legacy CMS BOE wishes to leave behind? I hope not.
Why wouldn’t CMS make the best school possible? Add all of Clear Creek in with Bain … !!!!!
Clear Creek
28.1% African American
52.8% White
10.4% Hispanic
8.7% Other
37.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch
Students performing at or above grade level in Reading 67.8%
Students performing at or above grade level in Math 84.6%
Students performing at or above grade level in Writing 70.6%
The new high school’s AP program will not meet (or exceed) what is required for truley talented children with the pool of students beyond Clear Creek. If CMS votes the latest plan, it is going to make one dumb school. We are screwed.
JH Gunn
46.9% African American
12.0% White
32.3% Hispanic
8.8% Other
74.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch
Students performing at or above grade level in Reading 41.4%
Students performing at or above grade level in Math 55.1%
Students performing at or above grade level in Writing 44.7%
JW Grier
60.3% African American
4.6% White
27.8% Hispanic
7.2% Other
72.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch
Students performing at or above grade level in Reading 48.2%
Students performing at or above grade level in Math 67.0%
Students performing at or above grade level in Writing 60.4%
Reedy Creek
52.1% African American
19.4% White
17.6% Hispanic
10.9% Other
54.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch
Students performing at or above grade level in Reading 55.4%
Students performing at or above grade level in Math 65.8%
Students performing at or above grade level in Writing 55.8%