Title I Transfer Information
Elementary Schools receiving Title I funding are required to offer parent options based upon their AYP status are listed below. Parents of students who attend the Title I elementary schools listed below have the option to request that your child attend a different school for the 2009-10 school year.
Schools that must offer Title I transfers for 2010-2011 are identified below:
Bethesda, Eastway, Glenn, Merrick-Moore, Oak Grove, Parkwood, W.G. Pearson, E.K. Powe, Southwest, Y.E. Smith, George Watts, Club Blvd., Eno Valley, Forest View, Hillandale, Holt, Hope Valley, and C.C. Spaulding
You may request a transfer for your child to attend one of the following designated schools:
- Burton Geo-World Magnet
- Fayetteville Street Elementary
- Lakewood Elementary
The district selected these transfer options based on student academic achievement results. (1) Burton Geo-World Magnet Elementary, (2) Lakewood Elementary, or (3) Fayetteville Street Elementary. These three schools were selected because of their academic progress. Based upon the preliminary 2009-2010 data all of these schools have made 100% of their Adequate Yearly Progress Goals and made Growth based on North Carolina’s ABCs. Both Burton Elementary and Lakewood Elementary made High Growth on the End of Grade Tests in 2009-2010. Both Lakewood and Fayetteville Street raised their growth scores by 10 points.
Please note that the achievement or test score data for schools is not available yet on the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction website. This information should be available online in the fall. You can find each school’s report card at: http://www.ncreportcard.org/src.
Please complete and return a transfer request form below for each child requesting a transfer between Monday, August 2, 2010 and Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5 p.m. and return to the Office of Student Assignment at Fuller Building, 511 Cleveland Street. Applications may be picked up at your school’s main office or from the Office of Student Assignment.
Transfer Request Forms
DPS will respond to your request within seven business days from receipt of your application with written notice regarding your child's school assignment and transportation availability. You will then have an opportunity to communicate whether you accept the approved transfer or want your child to remain at his/her current school. If a transfer request is approved, your child will be allowed to attend the transfer school through the fifth grade.
Please note: If your child’s base school’s AYP status changes in subsequent years and is no longer is required to offer the Choice requirement under No Child Left Behind law, your child may remain at the transfer school, but transportation will not provided. If the requests for transfer exceed available funding, priority must be given to the lowest-achieving students from low-income families.
Schools that participate in the Title I program receive funds from the federal government that are used to help students who are not achieving at grade level in low-income schools. As a recipient of these funds, Title I schools are required to make AYP in improving student achievement or face increasingly serious consequences.
Letter to Parents
