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Parent Council

May 17, 2023

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Strategic Plan: Learning for All

Our learners are engaged in authentic, challenging, and relevant learning experiences, becoming lifelong contributors and leaders in our dynamic and diverse society.

VISION

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high-quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds.

We will know every student.

MISSION

  • Equity
    • We will provide every student with the level of support necessary to thrive
  • Excellence
    • We will mitigate barriers and provide opportunities for every student to be academically successful
  • Family and Community
    • We will engage with and share the responsibility for student success with families and community partners
  • Wellness
    • We will support the physical and emotional health of our students and staff

VALUES

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Strategic Plan: Learning for All Goals

Thriving

Students

Equitable, Transformative Resources

Affirming and Empowering Communities

ACPS will facilitate learning experiences grounded in high expectations, networks of care, and student curiosity to ensure academic and social-emotional development for all students while eliminating opportunity, access, and achievement gaps.

ACPS commits to developing a culturally-responsive environment that will respect and champion the diversity of life experiences of all stakeholders and supports the physical and mental health of our students, staff, and families so they are actively empowered to engage in our school community.

ACPS will attract, develop, and retain the highest quality staff; develop sustainable and modern facilities, infrastructure, and equipment; and distribute all resources in an equitable manner to transform learning experiences and opportunities.

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Strategic Plan: Equitable and Transformative Resources

Equitable, Transformative Resources

Objective 2: Develop modern and environmentally sustainable facilities, infrastructure and equipment.

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Strategic Plan: Equitable and Transformative Resources

Equitable, Transformative Resources

STRATEGIES for Objective 2

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Strategy 1: ACPS will develop long range plans to address anticipated overcrowding issues.

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Strategy 2: ACPS will partner with the local government to align and overlap strategies to fully fund capital projects.

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Strategy 3: ACPS will develop and implement a criteria and cycle for renovations and improvements to ensure

equitable and contemporary facilities as well as sustainable practices

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Strategic Plan: Equitable and Transformative Resources

Equitable, Transformative Resources

SUCCESS MEASURES for Objective 2

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  • Any school over 95% capacity has a mitigation plan in development to address capacity issues

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  • All buildings meet modernization standards

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  • Our buildings reduce carbon emissions

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  • Increasing percentage of capital requests funded each year

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High Level Background Information about Upcoming Districting Study

  • Under development and will be finalized in July for the Board meeting

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  • With over 750 students, Baker-Butler Elementary is the second largest elementary school in the division and is currently experiencing overcrowding

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  • In response to this capacity issue and the forecast of additional development on the 29N corridor, a new school is planned for the northern feeder pattern

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  • The school is not scheduled to open for the 2029/30 school year, so a more immediate solution is needed and boundary changes need to be studied.

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High Level Background Information about Upcoming Districting Study

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  • ACPS utilizes a citizen based committee to study and make recommendation for boundary changes. Redistricting Advisory Committees are governed by School Board Policy FB: Facilities Planning (Page 6)

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  • The scope of the study is to create a two phased approach to creating new boundaries in the northern feeder pattern

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  • The study should produce a recommendation that will address current over enrollment and under enrollment issues and a preliminary recommendation for a boundary for the new elementary school

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High Level Background Information about Upcoming Districting Study

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  • ACPS utilizes a citizen based committee to study and make recommendation for boundary changes. Redistricting Advisory Committees are governed by School Board Policy FB: Facilities Planning (Page 6)

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  • The scope of the study is to create a two phased approach to creating new boundaries in the northern feeder pattern

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  • The study should produce a recommendation that will address current over enrollment and under enrollment issues and a preliminary recommendation for a boundary for the new elementary school

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  • While providing relief to Baker-Butler will be the primary objective as their over enrollment is significant , a comprehensive approach to the feeder patterns as a whole will allow us to study options for Woodbrook’s more moderate capacity issues and Stony Point’s under enrollment issues.

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Current thinking on which Schools will be Included in the Study

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  • To ensure it is a comprehensive approach all northern feeder pattern elementary schools will be included (Baker-Butler, Hollymead Elementary, Broadus Wood, Stony Point, Agnor-Hurt, Woodbrook , and Greer )

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  • Since it is a potential solution for Stony Point, Stone Robinson Elementary will be included

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  • Boundary changes may impact middle school feeder patterns, so Lakeside Middle, Journey Middle, and Burley Middle will be included

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Next Steps and How Families can be involved?

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  • Staff will present proposed scope of the study and composition of the committee to the School Board in July. The School Board will vote on the scope at their business meeting in August. Afterwards, we will advertise and receive applications for representatives to serve on the committee.

  • The committee will meet during the Fall of 2023. During that time there will be public meetings and surveys for everyone to give feedback.

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  • The committee will make a recommendation to the Superintendent who will in turn make a recommendation to the School Board. The School Board will hold a public hearing and vote on the recommendation in February (tentative date).

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  • New boundaries would go into effect for the 2024/25 school year.

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Useful Links

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Questions?

Contact us any time by emailing SuperintendentOffice@k12albemarle.org