Wake board designates 4 elem. schools as year-round

SOS Wake County
BOARD APPROVES SOLUTION FOR 2006-07 SCHOOL CROWDING

At its meeting Oct. 18, the Board of Education approved a proposal to provide additional school capacity to meet the tremendous increase in students. Student enrollment grew by more than 6,400 students this year and by more than 16,000 in the last three years. As part of the school construction program, Barwell Road Elementary, Brier Creek Elementary, Carpenter Year-round Elementary, Holly Springs High and Panther Creek High were the new schools originally scheduled to open in 2006-07.

To provide additional classroom seats for next year, the Board of Education approved at its Oct. 18 meeting opening two more elementary schools and designating those plus Brier Creek and Barwell Road as year-round. Holly Grove Elementary students and staff will begin a year early in space at Holly Springs High School (opens with 9th- and 10th-grades) while the permanent elementary school is being constructed. Similarly, North Forest Pines Drive will start early in the modular complex on Spring Forest Road.