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District lays out attendance-zone principles, staffing plan and planned $30M bond for three new schools
Summary
Clover School District presented a playbook for opening three new schools — attendance-zone principles, attendance-modeling tools, student-generation estimates and staffing steps — and finance staff said the board will be asked soon to authorize $30 million in remaining bond issuance to finish construction.
Doctor Hopkins, presenting the district’s school-opening "playbook," told the Clover School District Board of Trustees the district will start zone-building with each new school and then build outward, using ArcGIS and PowerSchool to model student distribution and growth. He listed guiding principles the district will use when creating attendance lines: avoid splitting neighborhoods, use major thoroughfares, aim for feeder continuity, leave capacity for future growth and minimize repeat student moves.
Hopkins presented residential-growth counts and a student-generation estimate tied to those permits: district modeling yields a potential 1,267 new students…
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