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Redistricting Community Meeting

November 28, 2017

Tonight’s Objectives

• Explain the redistricting process

• Update you on the committee’s progress

• Share next steps

• Answer your questions

Important To Take Away• No decisions have been made. It is anticipated that decisions will be

made in January.

• The neighborhoods have been and will continue to be anonymous. No one on the committee knows which neighborhood is which. This has allowed the scenarios to be created by working with enrollment data, poverty data, and diversity data.

• There will be another Community Meeting on Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 6:30. It is believed that the Redistricting Committee will have made a decision by then in anticipation of providing a recommendation to the School Board for approval at the January 8th School Board Meeting.

Lincoln Elementary Front of Building

East Facade

Courtyard

Kindergarten & 1st Grade Wing

2nd & 3rd Grade Wing

4th & 5th Grade Wing

Main Entry & Corridor

Media Center

Redistricting Committee• The purpose of the Redistricting Committee was to develop a plan to

recommend to the School Board that will adjust neighborhood school

placements in order to populate Lincoln Elementary.

• The call for volunteers went out in all school newsletters last spring and

the opportunity was available for any parent to be a participant. All

parents who volunteered were included on the Redistricting Committee.

After the first meeting, we did not add additional members as we believed

it was critical for all members to be in attendance at all of the meetings.

Similarities and Differences2013 Redistricting

• Needed due to imbalance of student

enrollment, no new school

• Students were moved in many

directions, primarily out of Eagle and

Reagan

• Committee of approximately 90

parents, teachers, and administrators

• All BCSC schools were rated as A

schools

• Parents recommended for committee

2017 Redistricting

• Needed due to opening of an

additional elementary school

• Students moved in one direction

• Committee of approximately 100

parents, teachers, and administrators

• All BCSC schools are currently rated

as A schools and all are also 4 Star

Schools

• Parents volunteered for committee

Take Aways from 2013

• Strategies to Keep: • Anonymous neighborhoods• Consideration for

• Poverty/SES and Diversity balancing• Apartment placement

• Strategies to Tweak: • Walking neighborhoods• Large neighborhoods• Homes not part of neighborhoods• Space available to maintain desired diversity and poverty ranges• Allow parents to volunteer to serve on the committee

Considerations from the 2013 Process• It was asked during the Redistricting of 2013 if it could be guaranteed that the neighborhoods being

redistricted would not be moved during the next redistricting. At the time, we explained that we would

do our best to avoid this. However, we could not guarantee that.

• Students who were in kindergarten for the last redistricting (which impacted school year 2014-2015),

meaning they were moved between kindergarten and first grade, will be 5th graders next year and could

be impacted by this year’s redistricting decisions. Past practice allowed students who would be

going into 5th grade and into 8th grade to remain at their school as long as transportation was

provided by parents. This Committee will provide input on continuing this practice.

• Beacon Pointe currently attends White Lick Elementary. This neighborhood is located across the street

from East Middle School. Families living in that neighborhood have been given the option since the last

redistricting to choose their middle school (West stays with feeder pattern riding a bus, East allows

students to walk). This neighborhood was told they would attend the new school and East after

this redistricting. Prior to redistricting, White Lick Elementary sent students to both East and West.

After the 2013 redistricting, White Lick was changed to a feeder school for West Middle School only.

Elementary Feeder ConfigurationAs students are redistricted for the opening of Lincoln Elementary, the

moves made will impact middle school placement as well. Students who

attend Lincoln will attend East Middle School.

Brown

Elementary

Eagle

ElementaryDelaware Trail

ElementaryWhite Lick

ElementaryCardinal

Elementary

Reagan

Elementary

Brownsburg West

Middle SchoolBrownsburg East

Middle School

Brownsburg High School

Lincoln

Elementary

ISTEP – Historical Data

• 2009 – 2010 BCSC ranked 22nd

• 2010 – 2011 BCSC ranked 16th




• 2014 – 2015 BCSC ranked 3rd

• 2015 – 2016 BCSC ranked 1st

• 2016 – 2017 BCSC ranked 1st

Indiana Department of Education Ratings and Awards This post card was

mailed to homes last year.

With the ISTEP results from Spring

2017, every Brownsburg School

earned an

A for the

SIXTH STRAIGHT YEAR!

Question

• If you had to pick just one, how do you believe most parents would respond and why?

• My elementary school is the best in BCSC.

• My elementary school is great – just like all of the other elementary schools in BCSC.

Student Enrollment

School 2013-2014* 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-20172017-2018

(8/11/17)

Brown Elementary 543 655 659 655 730

Cardinal Elementary 505 631 598 563 588

Delaware Trail

Elementary480 606 622 633 643

Eagle Elementary 795 634 670 716 745

Reagan Elementary 667 614 602 630 678

White Lick Elementary 582 586 579 616 602

Brownsburg East MS 1,155 1,039 1,017 1,048 1,064

Brownsburg West MS 757 922 948 952 987

Brownsburg High

School2,299 2,321 2,389 2,484 2,530

*Indicates the year prior to redistricting

Average Class Size, Grades K - 8

Preferred

Size2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018

Kindergarten 18 - 22 21.1 18.8 19.4 19.6 19.6

1st 18 - 22 20.2 19.4 20 20 20.6

2nd 18 - 22 20.4 19.4 19.3 18.6 19.7

3rd 22 - 26 21.1 22 21.6 22.6 22.2

4th 22 - 26 21.9 22.3 22.1 21.8 23.2

5th 22 - 26 22.9 23.3 23.1 22.2 23.6

6th 24 - 28 28.4 26.5 27.7 27.6 27.5

7th 24 - 28 27.3 27.8 24.3 23.4 25.7

8th 24 - 28 25.3 24.5 22.3 25.2 23.8

School Size and Special Programs

Number of

ClassroomsSpecial Programs

Brown 33 Life Skills

Cardinal 30 0

Delaware Trail 30 Emotional Disability

Eagle 33 0*

Lincoln 33 0

Reagan 30 0

White Lick 30 Bridge & K/1 HA*

The classrooms used for the Life Skills, ED, and Bridge programs are not included in the

classroom counts. The * at Eagle indicates they will receive the K/1 HA program for the

18 – 19 school year. That program is currently housed at White Lick.

Home School Placements

• Currently, there are students attending schools that are not their home school. These typically fall into one of two categories:

• Students with disabilities and their siblings: Students and the siblings of students who participate in special education programming only offered at specific buildings will not be returned to their home school unless they elect to do so.

• Rosemont: This neighborhood was incorrectly marked as attending Cardinal even though there was Board action that made it a Reagan neighborhood. The families who had purchased their homes believing it was a Cardinal neighborhood were allowed to attend Cardinal. This impacted less than 20 families. These families will attend the home school as determined by this committee.

Desired School Size 5 Kindergarten Classrooms – 20 students x 5 = 100 students

5 First Grade Classrooms – 20 students x 5 = 100 students

5 Second Grade Classrooms – 20 students x 5 = 100 students

4 Third Grade Classrooms – 25 students x 4 = 100 students

4 Fourth Grade Classrooms – 25 students x 4 = 100 students

4 Fifth Grade Classrooms – 25 students x 4 = 100 students

(10 per grade level in the 2/3 and 4/5 high ability program)

This would put all of our elementary schools at roughly 640 students.

An enrollment of 640 students allows for related arts programming, lunch

room capacity, and media center capacity to operate within desired limits.

Factors to Consider for Redistricting

1. Impact the fewest number of families while achieving desired enrollment numbers.

2. Equalize poverty rates in each school.

3. Maintain a representation of our community of the racial diversity in each school.

4. Create new classes within the parameters previously shared.

• Kdg – 2nd Grade: 18-22 students

• 3rd – 5th Grade: 22-26 students

• 6th – 8th Grade: 26-28 students

5. When all else fails – go back to parameter #1

Balancing Poverty Rates/SES –Updated 11/8/17

School 2017 - 2018

Percentages

Brown 24.97%

Cardinal 33.39%

Delaware Trail 27.33%

Eagle 24.66%

Reagan 22.84%

White Lick 23.28%Elementary Total 25.94%

• The elementary average is

25.94%.

• The committee’s goal will be to

redistrict neighborhoods so

that all schools are closer to

the district average. Our goal

is to be +/- 3% of the district

average.

• The desired range would then

be 22.94% - 28.94%.

Balancing Racial Diversity – Updated 11/8/17• The difference between the

highest and lowest diversity

percentages at our schools

(comparing elementary

schools) is currently 18.11%.

• Our goal would be that any

movement of students would

cause the diversity rates in our

schools to move closer to the

district average.

School 2017 - 2018

Percentages

Brown 24.02%

Cardinal 15.45%

Delaware Trail 29.31%

Eagle 33.56%

Reagan 26.06%

White Lick 27.21%Elementary Total 26.18%

Neighborhood Information, part 1

• There are several homes in BCSC not located within a neighborhood. These are homes that are typically found on county roads. These “no neighborhood” areas send us approximately 280 students in K – 5.

Neighborhood Information, part 2• Some homes on county roads are right next to a neighborhood. When

homes are located on county roads near neighborhoods, we have included these homes as part of the neighborhood for the purpose of transportation.

Red = WindridgeYellow = CreekwoodEstatesPurple = No neighborhood


• There are neighborhoods that have been deemed “walking neighborhoods”. These neighborhoods are within one mile of the assigned school. For financial reasons, to assist with transportation costs, our current plan is to not move walking areas. These walking areas include:

Brown

• Ashwood Estates

• Country Walk

Cardinal

• Bersot Crossing

• Holiday Pines

• Lincoln Point

• Thornburg

Delaware Trail

• Meadow Chase

• Hornaday Heights

Eagle

• Sugar Bush North

White Lick

• Brownswood

• Holiday Park II

• Hunters Cove

• Sugar Bush South


• Reagan Elementary has three walking neighborhoods: Hornaday Heights, Ironwood and Creekside Commons.

• Since Lincoln is connected to Reagan, these three neighborhoods are also within walking distance of Lincoln and will be considered for redistricting.

Large Neighborhoods

• There are 14 neighborhoods in the district who have more than 70 students in grades K - 5.

• Austin Meadows Bersot Crossing*

• Branches Clermont Lakes

• Creekside Commons* Hession Fields

• Highland Springs Lake Ridge

• Silverleaf (Eagle Crossing) Summer Ridge

• Thornburg* Tallgrass(Eagle Crossing)

• Williamsburg Wynne Farms West**

Large Neighborhoods

Summer Ridge East -1 and

Summer Ridge West – 1

would be considered one

subdivision.

Enclave West – 1, 2A, 2B, 3A,

3B, and Summer Ridge West –

2A and 2B would be considered

one subdivision.

Large Neighborhood Discussion

• In August, the idea of splitting large neighborhoods was shared with the committee.

• In order to make the redistricting process as transparent as possible, the committee needed to consider whether or not splitting large neighborhoods is beneficial to meeting the goals of the redistricting process.

• After information was shared, each parent participant (including BCSC staff members who have students enrolled) provided feedback on their preference of either splitting large neighborhoods or keeping them whole.

Area Elementary Assigned ElemWalk K5Enrollment FRALPHA DiversityALPHA

Bogus #01 Happy Elementary 22 Higher SES Less Diversity


Bogus #03 Happy Elementary 17 Near Average SES Near Average Diversity

Bogus #04 Happy Elementary 30 Lower SES More Diversity

Bogus #05 Happy Elementary 105 Near Average SES Less Diversity

Bogus #06 Happy Elementary 52 Higher SES Near Average Diversity

Bogus #07 Happy Elementary 10 Near Average SES More Diversity

Bogus #08 Happy Elementary 12 Lower SES Less Diversity


Bogus #10 Happy Elementary Walk 15 Higher SES More Diversity




Bogus #14 Happy Elementary Walk 52 Higher SES Less Diversity



Bogus #17 Happy Elementary 79 Higher SES More Diversity

Bogus #18 Happy Elementary Walk 47 Near Average SES Near Average Diversity




Large Neighborhood DiscussionArea - Neighborhood

Elementary Assigned – Current Home School

ElemWalk – Is this a walking neighborhood?

K5Enrollment – Students currently enrolled in grades K - 5

FRALPHA – Poverty (Free and Reduced lunch) percentage in comparison to district average

DiversityALPHA – Diversity percentage in comparison to district average

District Averages - FRALPHA: 21.42% and DiversityALPHA: 18.45%




















Large Neighborhood DiscussionWalking neighborhoods have been removed. Neighborhoods have been sorted by size. Look at the last two neighborhoods – we could move #5, but #16 is too large to move.

Happy Elementary School has a poverty percentage of 17.6% and a diversity percentage of 19%.

Happy Elementary School needs to send 100 students to the new school.

Happy Elementary School should send students who are Higher SES or Near SES. As for diversity, they could send students from any category

District Averages - FRALPHA: 21.42% and DiversityALPHA: 18.45%Higher, Less, or Lower = +/- 3% from district average




















Walking neighborhoods have been removed. Neighborhoods have been sorted FRALPHA.


Happy Elementary School should send students who are Higher SES or Near SES. As for diversity, they could send students from any category






















Neighborhoods have been sorted FRALPHA.


Happy Elementary School should send students who are Higher SES or Near SES. As for diversity, they could send students from any category .

Scenario One: Bogus #1 and Bogus #17 = 101 students to be moved







Bogus #05A Happy Elementary 65 Near Average SES Less Diversity

Bogus #05B Happy Elementary 40 Near Average SES Near Average Diversity










Bogus #16A Happy Elementary 63 Higher SES Less Diversity


Bogus #16C Happy Elementary 70 Higher SES Near Average Diversity

Bogus #16D Happy Elementary 69 Near Average SES Less Diversity






The committee decides to have neighborhoods split. Neighborhoods that are larger than 70 and require more than one bus would be split.

This shows the splits and the whole neighborhood would be removed from the spreadsheet.



























Whole neighborhoods removed from the spreadsheet. Neighborhoods have been sorted FRALPHA.

Previously, there were 5 neighborhoods that were Higher SES. However, one was too large to consider. The split results in 6 Higher SES neighborhoods. Additionally, there were 7 Near Average SES neighborhoods prior to the split, now there are 10.

























Scenario Three: Bogus #1, #2, and #16a = 98 students to be moved

Neighborhoods have been sorted FRALPHA.



Large Neighborhood DiscussionSplitting Neighborhoods

• Pros• More options for scenarios

• Cons• Neighborhood children could

attend different schools

Keeping Neighborhoods Whole

• Pros• Neighborhood children attend the

same school

• Cons• Fewer options for scenarios

If no splitting is done, one or two of our largest neighborhoods become redistrict-proof. This could be a pro or a con.

Voting Results (slide added after September meeting)

Keep Neighborhoods Whole Split Neighborhoods

Factors to Consider for Redistricting

1. Impact the fewest number of families while achieving desired enrollment numbers.

2. Equalize poverty rates in each school.

3. Maintain a representation of our community of the racial diversity in each school.

4. Create new classes within the parameters previously shared.

• Kdg – 2nd Grade: 18-22 students

• 3rd – 5th Grade: 22-26 students

• 6th – 8th Grade: 26-28 students

5. When all else fails – go back to parameter #1

Adjustments Needed

All of the numbers listed below indicate an approximate number of students

who will be relocated. **New enrollment data from November 8, 2017**

August

Numbers

November

Numbers

Desired

Size

Difference

(approx.)

Brown 730 737 +/- 600 - 130

Cardinal 588 602 +/- 560 - 30*

Delaware Trail 643 655 +/- 560 - 80*

Eagle 745 742 +/- 600 - 145

Lincoln 0 0 +/- 560 + 560**

Reagan 678 683 +/- 560 - 120

White Lick 602 610 +/- 560 - 40

Total 3,986 4,029 4,000

*= updated enrollment data causes <10 student change in original relocation number**= could impact number of students for opening of Lincoln (larger than original estimate)

Scenarios• In September, each table was asked to come up with at least two scenarios of moves that could be

made that fell within the parameters provided.

• 35 scenarios were submitted. These scenarios were collected and run through a database to determine the impact of the moves on poverty rates, diversity rates, and student enrollment.

• In October, the list was narrowed from 35 to 15. The narrowing occurred based on poverty, diversity, and student enrollment.

• Some modified scenarios were created at the end of the October meeting. The 15 scenarios (created in September) and 14 modified scenarios (created in October) were run again using updated numbers (11/8/17).

• In November, the Committee evaluated the scenarios again and narrowed the scenarios to 7. These 7 scenarios will be evaluated and discussed by the Committee in December and in January. Additional narrowing will be done until there is one scenario that will be the recommended scenario.

Plan: I1 Modified Desired

Enrollment

This Plan's

Enrollment

Enrollment

check

+/- 20

This Plan's

SES Prior SES SES check

This Plan's

Diversity

Prior

Diversity

Diversity

Check

Brown Elementary 600 604 25.00% 24.97% Within Range 23.34% 24.02% Widening

Cardinal Elementary 560 577 33.45% 33.39% Outside Range 15.60% 15.45% Narrowing

Delaware Trail Elementary 560 570 23.33% 27.33% Within Range 23.86% 29.31% Narrowing

Eagle Elementary 600 597 27.97% 24.66% Within Range 33.00% 33.56% Narrowing

Lincoln Elementary 560 566 19.61% NA Outside Range 31.45% NA NA

Reagan Elementary 560 561 27.45% 22.84% Within Range 26.74% 26.06% Widening

White Lick Elementary 560 554 24.55% 23.28% Within Range 29.42% 27.21% Widening

These areas would be moved: Area ID To Elementary

BES-07 Lincoln Elementary



CES-02 Lincoln Elementary

DTES-08 Lincoln Elementary


EES-02 Lincoln Elementary



RES-05 Lincoln Elementary




xxx xxx


xxx xxx

xxx xxx

xxx xxx

xxx xxx

xxx xxx

xxx xxx

Desired SES Range: 22.94 - 28.94%

Average SES: 25.94%

Average Diversity: 26.18%

1. Cardinal’s SES will not be within the range with only moving +/- 30 students.

2. White Lick’s diversity will always show widening since only one neighborhood and one program are moving.

3. A too big with a too small is a correction that can be made.4. Pay attention to Lincoln Elementary numbers. Because

they are essentially new numbers, they are not figured in to the Diversity check. You will need to do that.

5. The xxx below RES-15 indicates that the DTES-11 is an addition. This addition is what makes this scenario a modified plan.

Other Factors to Consider• Previously Redistricted Neighborhoods: There is one neighborhood which has

been moved in more than 2/3 of the plans that were submitted for consideration in November. Investigation into this neighborhood shows that there is 1 student who was impacted by the last redistricting. The data shown about redistricting does not include this neighborhood as part of the count. A yes indicates there are neighborhoods in the plan which were redistricted for the 2014-2015 school year. Best response would be a No.

• Apartments: Currently each elementary school has 1 to 2 apartment complexes sending students to them. If a scenario causes the number of apartment complexes at Lincoln to be more than 2 or if a scenario leaves schools with 0 apartment complexes, the box will say no. If the scenario results in all schools have 1 – 2 complexes, the box will say yes. Best response would be a Yes.

Other Factors to Consider, part 2• Split Neighborhoods: This represents the number of neighborhoods

that are actually being split in this scenario. If a neighborhood is split into 3 sections and only one section is moved, it would be counted as 1. If a neighborhood is split into 3 sections and two sections are moved, it would be counted as 1. If a neighborhood is split into two sections and both sections are being moved, it would not be counted because the neighborhood is staying together even though it is being moved. The best response is a low number.

SCENARIO/PLAN REDISTRICTED APARTMENTSSPLIT

NEIGHBORHOODS

I1M NO YES 5

Questions

• Please mark your calendars for Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 6:30 pm. This will be

the next Community Meeting for Redistricting.

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