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Round 3 – Secondary School Facility Planning And Feasibility Study

Round 3 Public Meetings
•  Tues, Aug 23 @ 6:30pm in the auditorium at Clarkston HS
•  Thurs, Aug 25 @ 6:30pm in the gymnasium at Cross Keys HS


Stan Jester
DeKalb County
Board Of Education

Note: After Thursday’s Round 3 presentation, the district will be collecting more input. In accordance with state law, School Councils shall provide advice and recommendations to the board of education and superintendent. The biggest voice, as described in the School Council Fact Sheet, will come from a complete cluster or region of school councils that come together with one resolution.
I encourage everybody to reach out and discuss these options with your school council. I encourage the school councils to come together and agree on and each pass congruent resolutions with their advice and recommendations on these options.

Superintendent Stephen Green

Dr. Stephen Green
Superintendent, DeKalb County School District

“We believe that our school councils are very important to the decision-making process within the District. So much so, we are asking for our school councils from the middle and high schools within each cluster to come together and develop a joint letter (with signatures of the school council chairs) to the Chief Operations Officer detailing their viewpoints on the three options or another option they may proposed by September 16th. In the event a school council has not been established for the 2016-2017 school year, the PTA will be encouraged to develop a letter in response to the proposed options.
The District will be sending out communication to the middle and high school clusters by the end of the week requesting this formal input. In that communication, we will also be encouraging one or more clusters to come together and develop a multi-cluster response, if possible. The collaborative formal response from multiple school clusters will provide invaluable insight and will greatly enhance our stakeholder engagement process.”

 
 
Meeting Documents
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Options Handout
.pdf link icon  PowerPoint Presentation (Aug 23 and 25, 2016)
.pdf link icon  Online Survey on Three Options (Aug 23 – Sep 16)
.pdf link icon  Option B: Assumed Middle School to High School Feeder Configuration
.pdf link icon  Option C: Magnet Student Move Assumptions
What is the Secondary School Facility Planning & Feasibility Study?
A study based on public input on how to address overcrowding in middle and high schools. The scope of the study was later expanded to include renovation and capacity recommendations for middle and high school facilities in all regions. Recommendations from this study will be incorporated into the Building S.P.A.C.E.S. Master Planning Initiative for the development of the 2017-2022 E-SPLOST V project list.
SUMMARY of Round 3 Proposed Options

Option A Re-cluster existing Cross Keys Cluster (Add New Sequoyah Area Cluster)
• New Sequoyah Area High School (at future site) + New Cross Keys Area Middle School at Briarcliff site
• Additions at five existing secondary schools
• Total New/Additions: 4,200 HS + 2,300 MS = 6,500 seats
• No split feeders (maintains 1-to-1 MS-to-HS alignment)
• Dependent on significant land acquisition for new high school
Option B Re-cluster existing Cross Keys Cluster (Using 18 existing clusters and split feeders)
• New Cross Keys High School at Briarcliff site
• Additions at five existing secondary schools + conversion of HS to MS
• Total New/Additions: 3,450 HS + 1,500 MS = 4,950 seats
• Split feeders in Regions 1, 2, & 3
Option C Re-cluster existing Cross Keys Cluster (Add New Sequoyah Area Cluster)
+ Relocate Chamblee Magnets

• New Sequoyah Area High School + New Cross Keys Area Middle School at Briarcliff site
• Relocate magnet programs to school(s) with available capacity
• Additions at five existing secondary schools
• Total New/Additions: 3,800 HS + 2,050 MS = 5,850 seats
• No split feeders (maintains 1-to-1 MS-to-HS alignment)
• Dependent on significant land acquisition for new high school

IMPACT of Round 3 Proposed Options

NEW/REPLACEMENT SCHOOLS ADDITIONS TO EXISTING
SCHOOLS
Split Feeders Cost
Option A New 2,400-seat high school in Sequoyah area
 
New 1,400-seat middle school for Cross Keys at Briarcliff site
1. 600-seat Cross Keys HS
2. 500-seat Sequoyah MS
3. 400-seat Lakeside HS
4. 800-seat Clarkston HS
5. 400-seat Freedom MS
None $247 Million (includes land)
Option B New 2,500-seat Cross Keys HS at Briarcliff site (Convert current CKHS to 1,500-seat middle school) 1. 600-seat Chamblee HS
2. 600-seat Dunwoody HS
3. 750-seat Lakeside HS
4. 300-seat Clarkston HS
5. 200-seat at former CKHS
Multiple schools in Regions 1, 2, & 3 $163 Million
Option C New 2,000-seat high school in Sequoyah area
 
1,400-seat middle school for Cross Keys at Briarcliff site
1. 600-seat Cross Keys HS
2. 250-seat Sequoyah MS
3. 400-seat Lakeside HS
4. 800-seat Clarkston HS
5. 400-seat Freedom MS
None $224 Million
(includes land)

Timeline
Aug 23 – Sep 16, 2016:
Online Survey on three Options
• Request for Cluster-level joint formal school council response
Sep 27, 2016
• Present the Secondary School Study final recommendation at the Building SPACES Presentation
Oct 4 – 17, 2016
Five public hearings in October to discuss the E-SPLOST V project draft list.
The draft list, compiled through the Building S.P.A.C.E.S. Initiative, will be publicly presented Sept. 27.
Each public hearing will be at 7 p.m. at the following locations:
• Oct. 4, 2016 at Tucker High School (Region 2)
• Oct. 11, 2016 at Miller Grove High School (Region 4)
• Oct. 13, 2016 at Chamblee High School (Region 1)
• Oct. 17, 2016 at Columbia High School (Region 5)
• Oct. 18, 2016 at Stone Mountain High School (Region 3)
Oct 4 – 24, 2016
• Online Survey on draft E-SPLOST project list
Nov 7, 2016
• Board COW discussion on E-SPLOST project list
Dec 5, 2016
• Formal Board approval of E-SPLOST project list


Chamblee Magnet Moving? It’s Still On The Table
August 10, 2016 – Is the option to move the Chamblee Magnet Program still on the table? Superintendent Green refutes any communications saying it’s off the table.

Pros & Cons
Planning and Feasibility Study Options

July 25, 2016 – Committees consisting of steering committee members and two representatives from each of the forty middle and high schools studied and discussed these pros and cons of the four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.

Cost Estimates
Planning and Feasibility Study Options

July 20, 2016 – Based on 2022 enrollment projections, the Steering Committee discussed these Cost Estimates for the four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.

DeKalb Secondary School Facility Planning and Feasibility Study
July 18, 2016 – The study will identify the challenges and opportunities facing each middle school and high school, determine options to address the needs identified, and prepare regional master plans to implement the options. Here are the problems, the funds and the options.

Chamblee Magnet Program – Is it moving?
July 13, 2016 – Any truth to the rumor of moving the magnet program from Chamblee Middle and Chamblee High? Steering committees discussed the pros and cons of the following four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.

DeKalb Secondary School Facility Planning and Feasibility Study

The Secondary School Facility Planning and Feasibility Study is now in its third round of public engagement sessions.

  Chamblee Magnet Program – District Options Developed To Address Capacity Needs
Round 3
Based on feedback from the five Regional Steering Committee meetings, these three options will be combined and/or refined to create recommendations/options to be presented at two public meetings scheduled to take place on

  • Tuesday, August 23rd at Clarkston HS auditorium at 6:30 pm
  • Thursday, August 25th at Cross Keys HS gymnasium at 6:30 pm.

There will also be an online survey to provide feedback on the recommendations/options presented at these meetings available at: http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/www/secondaryschoolfacilitystudy/.
Recommendations from this study will be incorporated into the District’s Building S.P.A.C.E.S (Master Planning) Initiative and the proposed 2017-2022 E-SPLOST project list, which will be discussed in public meetings in Sep-tember 2016.
The Problem


Three Options Developed To Address Capacity Needs

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•  Option 1: New Cluster Approach
Construct a new high school to be paired with Sequoyah MS and a new middle school to be paired with Cross Keys HS. Classroom additions at Lakeside HS and Clarkston HS will also be needed as well as localized attendance line adjustments to balance enrollment.
•  Option 2: Expand Existing Capacity
Construct classroom additions at: Chamblee HS, Chamblee MS, Peachtree MS, Dunwoody HS, Cross Keys HS, Sequoyah MS, Lakeside HS, and Clarkston HS. No new schools would be constructed and localized attendance line adjustments would still be necessary to balance enrollment. This option included two variations:

  1. Chamblee MS and Chamblee HS magnet programs remain in place
  2. Chamblee MS and Chamblee HS magnet programs are relocated to other schools with available capacity. (AKA “Shutdown Chamblee MS/HS Magnet Program and create new HS/MS Magnet Program in Southwest DeKalb cluster Plan)

•  Option 3: Utilize Existing Capacity
This option focused on leveraging district-wide attendance line adjustments to relieve overcrowding. Under this option, the one-to-one middle to high school feeder pattern would be eliminated for all DeKalb middle and high schools and new attendance areas would be established for every middle and high school within the District. This option also includes the conversion of some middle and high schools into another configuration (e.g. middle to high or high to middle) and requires the construction of a new middle school and a classroom addition to Clarkston HS.
The Purpose – Planning and Feasibility Study
To develop long-term plans for addressing capacity needs of the district’s middle schools and high schools utilizing all available options including E-SPLOST funds.


Pros & Cons
Planning and Feasibility Study Options

July 25, 2016 – Committees consisting of steering committee members and two representatives from each of the forty middle and high schools studied and discussed these pros and cons of the four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.

Cost Estimates
Planning and Feasibility Study Options

July 20, 2016 – Based on 2022 enrollment projections, the Steering Committee discussed these Cost Estimates for the four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.

DeKalb Secondary School Facility Planning and Feasibility Study
July 18, 2016 – The study will identify the challenges and opportunities facing each middle school and high school, determine options to address the needs identified, and prepare regional master plans to implement the options. Here are the problems, the funds and the options.

Chamblee Magnet Program – Is it moving?
July 13, 2016 – Any truth to the rumor of moving the magnet program from Chamblee Middle and Chamblee High? Steering committees discussed the pros and cons of the following four potential options to address current and pending capacity needs.