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Stratford committee approves shifting Flex Zone and sets limited waiver, grandfathering rules
Summary
A Stratford School District committee approved moving about 25 Flex Zone secondary students to rebalance middle- and high-school enrollments, authorized a limited waiver/lottery for a small pocket of families, and agreed to grandfather current high-school students through graduation.
The Stratford School District redistricting committee voted to reassign the Flex Zone cohort of roughly 25 secondary students so those students will move from the Worcester/Stratford High track to Flood/Benel. Committee members said the change is intended to reduce a current middle-school enrollment imbalance and bring utilization closer to parity across schools.
The committee’s discussion cited grade-level counts provided by district staff: the pocket includes multiple grades (the staff summary enumerated roughly 15 fifth-graders, 21 fourth-graders, 18 third-graders, 15 second-graders and 16 first-graders in the area under consideration). Staff said the 25-student shift would reduce a middle-school difference of about 62 students down toward the low teens while producing only modest changes at the high-school level.
Susan Hughes, a district staff member who provided the counts and utilization figures, told the committee the consultant’s original study…
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