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Scotia-Glenville Central School District plans new kindergarten boundaries and adds an eighth kindergarten section
Summary
District administrators proposed new kindergarten boundaries, three 'swing zones' to balance enrollments, and an eighth kindergarten section placed at Lincoln; officials said the change uses existing staff FTE and carries no budget increase for 2026–27.
Superintendent Susan Schwartz and district administrators presented a plan to reorganize elementary boundaries and add capacity in kindergarten to balance class sizes across the Scotia‑Glenville Central School District.
The district’s presenter, Mr. Arket, said administrators will increase kindergarten from seven to eight sections next school year and place the extra section at Lincoln. "We are going to change it to eight," he said, adding that the change responds to a larger birth cohort and rising pre-registrations: "There are 192 live births in the 2021 cohort." The proposal aims to keep neighborhoods and bus companions together while smoothing class-size variance across buildings.
District leaders said the additional kindergarten section will be achieved without increasing the elementary classroom FTE budget for 2026–27 by repurposing an existing math response-to-intervention position at Lincoln and adding 0.5 reading FTE. The presenter told the board this approach will allow Lincoln to convert a math RTI role into a classroom section and absorb most RTI duties through increased reading support and teacher redeployment.
The administration showed two sets of maps (the current Transfinder boundaries and the proposed kindergarten boundaries for new families) and described three geographic "swing zones" (A, B and C) that give the district flexibility to assign new kindergarten families to one of multiple buildings to balance enrollments. Officials said families with siblings already enrolled will remain at the same school; the new maps apply to new kindergarten or new elementary registrations.
Preliminary enrollment projections showed kindergarten class-size averages shrinking to a range of about 16–20 students under the proposed plan (the district’s guideline for kindergarten class size is 22). The administration emphasized these numbers are preliminary and will be updated after transfer-request reviews and ongoing registrations.
Next steps include notifying pre-registered kindergarten families (ParentSquare and mailed letters expected the following day), accepting building-change requests for two weeks, and the transportation team working with Transfinder to finalize bus routing. The administration said teacher assignments were distributed in March and that TA assignments would be issued by June 1. The board was told it will review the program’s functioning next year and adjust swing-zone assignments as needed.
The board took no further formal votes on the boundaries at this meeting; administrators said they will finalize staff assignments and communicate placements to families by the district’s May 1 timeline for swing-zone notifications.
