Primary Criteria

include;

·Geographic

proximity ­ Distance traveled using available routes of transportation.

·Instructional

capacity ­ Number of students who can be aaccommodated at the school,

taking into account the number of classrooms and resource rooms needed

for art, music, laboratories, foreign language, English to Speakers of

Other Languages (ESOL), special education, and Talented and Gifted (TAG)

programs.

·Projected

enrollment ­ Number of students assigned to a school taking into

account the future projected enrollment.

Secondary Criteria

include:

· Traffic

patterns ­ Factors impacting accessibility of the school from all

portions of the attendance zone, including travel time, traffic flow in

the area, safe operation of school buses, and other safety considerations.

· Previous

rezoning ­ The school system seeks to avoid rezoning neighborhoods

more than once during a three-year period if facility sizes and geographic

distribution of student populations allow.

· Special

programs ­ The school system seeks to avoid placing in each zone

disproportionate numbers of programs that serve children with special

needs and require use of additional space over and above that of a regular

classroom.

· School

feeder alignment ­ Where possible, consideration is given to the

alignment of elementary, middle, and high school attendance boundaries.

The Fulton

County Board of Education will vote on the new attendance zones in February

2004, with changes going into effect in August 2004. More information

on the redistricting process can be found online at www.fulton.k12.ga.us/redistricting.

The new middle

school will open to students in August 2004. It is located adjacent toRandolph

Elementary School and is less than two miles from Westlake High School.