{"id":10971,"date":"2017-05-17T01:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2017-05-17T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:57:09","slug":"redistricting-already-underway-in-brick-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/05\/redistricting-already-underway-in-brick-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Redistricting Already Underway in Brick; 64 Students Will Switch Schools Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Township Board of Education\/Schools (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

A redistricting plan that will affect three elementary schools in the Brick Township district is already underway due to concerns over class size, Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella said.<\/p>\n

The redistricting plan will ultimately affect 64 students, who will be moved out of Veterans Memorial Elementary School and moved to either Herbertsville or Midstreams elementary schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was really a matter of geography,\u201d said Dennis Filippone,\u00a0Director of Planning, Research & Evaluation for the district. \u201cWhile we realize we have declining enrollment in the district, the Veterans area was not declining.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veterans Memorial Elementary School had the highest class sizes in the district, Filippone said. The redistricting will bring the average VMES classroom to 21.2 students next year, at approximate parity with the district\u2019s other elementary schools. The average Midstreams class will have 19.3 students and Herbertsville will have 21.4 students, which is likely to go down after one year due to an unusually high third grade population, which will be split into two fourth grade classes, said\u00a0Filippone.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange is difficult,\u201d said Gialanella. \u201cI understand that the change of schools, whenever you\u2019re talking about any student, is difficult to do. It is a small step to try and equalize class size.\u201d<\/p>\n

The streets affected by the change are:\u00a0Sawmill Road, Spiral Drive, Bay Bridge Drive, Oak Knoll Drive, Herbertsville Road, Eastham Road, Oxford Road, Aldgate Drive, Smith Road, Barclay Drive, Smith Circle, Azalea Drive, Driscol Drive and MacArthur Drive. In all, 46 students will be taken in by Midstreams and 18 students will be added to Herbertsville.<\/p>\n

No parents commented on the changes at the Board of Education meeting last week where they were formally adopted.<\/p>\n

Gialanella said the plan was already in place before the board approved it, where some students this year were moved out of VMES, in order to keep class sizes down.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking to the future, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, but I think it solves the problem for the present,\u201d said Gialanella. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to see where the gains and losses are in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

A demographic study of the township completed recently indicated that the district will continue to lose students, however the losses will eventually plateau. The Brick district, like many in southern New Jersey, has seen student population decline as a result of Millennials putting off having children or moving out of state, studies have shown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gialanella said students currently in third or fourth grade will be ale to stay in their current schools if they make a request to the district and provide their own transportation. No bus routes will accommodate students who are attending schools other than\u00a0their assigned school.<\/p>\n

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A redistricting plan that will affect three elementary schools in the Brick Township district is already underway due to concerns over class size, Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella said. The redistricting plan will ultimately affect 64 students, who will be moved out of Veterans Memorial Elementary School and moved to either Herbertsville or Midstreams elementary schools. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[24,593,2285,928,2685],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-schools","tag-herbertsville-elementary-school","tag-midstreams-elementary-school","tag-veterans-memorial-elementary-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0004.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2QX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}