Folsom Boundary Modifications
 
School Board Approved:   November 4, 2010
Effective Starting Date:      2011/12 School Year and on

Elementary School Level:
  1. Create a centralized application process for elementary ‘school choice.’
  2. Elementary school choice must be reapplied for on a yearly basis.
  3. ‘School choice’ will be considered at elementary sites with enrollments over 700 students on a very limited basis.
  4. Elementary school sites with lower enrollments should be considered first when placement of overflow students occurs to limit transportation routes and help balance elementary school enrollment.
  5. Amend the existing elementary ‘Priority’ School Choice Policy for current and future students from The Shores and The Park on Riley (formerly Quail Chase) to attend Sandra J. Gallardo Elementary on a yearly, space available basis through the centralized ‘school choice’ application process.
  6. Add up to six relocatable classrooms at Russell Ranch Elementary School as needed.
  7. Consider implementing Advanced Placement Programs at elementary sites with lower enrollments.
  8. Reconvene an elementary school boundary study when the District is able to reinstitute classroom loading below the 25:1 student ratio in grades 1st through 3rd, or as needed.

Secondary School Level:

  1. New out-of-district ‘school choice’ students will not be admitted into Vista del Lago High School starting in the 2011/12 school year.
  2. Align the Blanche Sprentz Elementary attendance area to attend Folsom Middle School and Vista del Lago High School.
  3. Folsom Hills Elementary and Blanche Sprentz Elementary students may elect to attend Sutter Middle School and Folsom High School.
  4. Continue to analyze the enrollments at both high schools over the next few years in order to allow enough time for Folsom High to select and market new instructional programs that should increase the enrollment at Folsom High without making additional high school attendance boundary changes.
  5. Explore various options for expanding educational pathways that encourage elementary and middle school students to tract into Folsom High School. Examples currently under discussion include:
    1. Foreign language program that would accommodate students from current FLES (Foreign Language Experience School) programs as well as other interested foreign language students into Sutter Middle School and then on to Folsom High School;
    2. Visual and Performing Arts program pathway;
    3. Enhanced STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs in elementary through high school; and
    4. Additional programs that would prepare elementary and middle school students for success in Advanced Placement Programs in high school.