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Enrollment Management
This page has been created to share information about the exciting opportunities and changes taking place in our schools. This location is for students, parents, staff and community members of MSD Decatur Township.
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This page has been created to share information about the exciting opportunities and changes taking place in our schools. This location is for students, parents, staff and community members of MSD Decatur Township.
If you have questions or ideas you would like to share, please email them to...
reinvention@msddecatur.k12.in.us
Please visit often to stay informed!
reinvention@msddecatur.k12.in.us
Please visit often to stay informed!
Announcements Information About Enrollment ManagementWhy is Change Coming to Our Schools? There have been some changes occurring in Decatur schools that you need to be aware of regarding student enrollment. The MSD of Decatur Township is one of the very few school districts in Marion County that continues to increase in school age population. This year, for the first time, the MSD of Decatur Township has over 6,300 students. Unfortunately there has not been an even distribution of these students throughout our schools which has resulted in some elementary schools reaching capacity while others are declining in enrollment. We are experiencing overcrowding conditions at West Newton and Valley Mills Elementary Schools and yet there is additional space available going unused at Stephen Decatur and Lynwood Elementary Schools.
Also No Child Left Behind, through Title I, has mandated school improvement plans forStephen Decatur and Lynwood. This means that parents can choose to send their children to Valley Mills or West Newton. While Stephen Decatur made Annual Yearly Progress last year, Lynwood did not and it becomes necessary to change the structure of that school. All of this means that simply redrawing new attendance boundaries for elementary schools is not possible because parents would continue to have the option of sending their children to another Decatur school and overcrowding issues would remain.
Making a Plan to Move Forward
An Enrollment Management committee made of educators, parents, community members and administrators has been working for more than a year on how to resolve these situations. A conceptual framework listing possible changes put together by this group has been approved by the school board so that further investigation of these concepts can occur. The major focus of the committee in planning the redesign of our elementary program is to improve student achievement.
This framework allows the school corporation to consider different options including the possibility of the following:
More information will be forthcoming and several means will be used to keep you updated on the progress being made. The school board will consider recommendations from the committee at their board meeting January 12.
Questions? Comments? Call our Parent Hotline Message Center at the intermediate school 856-4100, ext. 8301 and leave a message so a member of the Enrollment committee can contact you as quickly as possible.
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