BOARD VOTES TO CAP STUDENT ENROLLMENT.Byline: Sue Doyle Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. - Hoping to balance a growing student population inside its classrooms, Newhall's school board voted Tuesday to freeze enrollment in some grades and to limit large incoming kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be classes - again. It's the fifth straight year for enrollment freezes in first through sixth grades at Stevenson Ranch and Pico Canyon elementary schools elementary school: see school. . And it's the second year in a row that kindergarten classes at Stevenson Ranch will be capped. ``It's hard to do, but we have to,'' said school board member Mike Shapiro. ``There are so many kids coming out of the Stevenson Ranch community.'' With an application list of about 165, the kindergarten class attending Stevenson Ranch Elementary in the fall will be limited to about 120. Pupils with siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) at the school will have enrollment priority. Later this month, the board will decide how to divvy up Verb 1. divvy up - give out as one's portion or share portion out, apportion, share, deal hand out, pass out, give out, distribute - give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" the remaining seats. Remaining pupils will be diverted to Oak Hills Elementary, but could switch to Stevenson Ranch elementary when seats open up in the future. Kindergarten enrollment at Pico Canyon Elementary School has been limited to 140 students, and school officials said so far there doesn't appear to be an overflow this year that would send kids to another school. Shapiro said the board's decisions were necessary to keep enrollment at its schools at about 750. Almost 1,000 students now attend Stevenson Ranch elementary. Enrollment can be a challenge in Stevenson Ranch, where many young families have moved into its roomy houses and, as a result, have dominated the school district with student growth, while older communities are experiencing declines. Board President Steve Tannehill said Oak Hills Elementary School and Pico Canyon Elementary School were built to accommodate the heavy population growth found west of Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. 5. Even Wiley Canyon Elementary School got a makeover to hold more students. ``But then you have to populate To plug in chips or components into a printed circuit board. A fully populated board is one that contains all the devices it can hold. those schools and make enrollment decisions,'' Tannehill said. ``This is a step in a very long process that began 11 years ago when we opened Stevenson Ranch Elementary School.'' Sue Doyle, (661) 257-5254 sue.doyle(at)dailynews.com |
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