Students will be reassigned based on the location of their home.

Families will receive assignment letters via mail and email. We will send notification as soon as possible after Board approval. Our goal is to complete this before students go home for the summer.

The recommendation is to reassign 6th grade students to North Rowan Middle School. Seventh and Eigth graders will be sent to Southeast Middle School, Erwin Middle School, and West Rowan Middle School All rising sixth graders will be assigned to North Rowan Middle School based on the boundaries created by our partnership with Numerix.

Once initial student reassignments are shared, we will open an additional transfer window for students impacted by the closure of Knox Middle School. This transfer window will follow the same policy as our traditional transfer window. Transfers can be approved for academic programs, childcare, work proximity, etc. (full list here). We don’t honor transfers for students who would rather play sports at a specific school. We will announce dates for this transfer window once the Board of Education makes a final decision on a project plan.

Yes. Every summer we redesign our bus routes to make sure all students have transportation to their assigned schools. We will make sure that all reassigned students have a route to get them to their new school. 

Per usual, we do not provide transportation to students who transfer to a different school than their assigned school.

The closure and construction of these schools will not impact Salisbury High School. All high school students remain at their districted high schools.

We’ll take this feedback and look at the feasibility, but it is unlikely that this is a possibility.

Yes, students will be able to participate in all that is offered at the school they are assigned to.

Our students are why we are here, and their safety is our highest priority. We are continually thinking about what the transition looks like for students and how populations merge as we plan reassignments. We have learned valuable lessons from some of our past school closures, and we plan to train our staff about how to handle these transitions. We will also meet with community and law enforcement officials to plan how to best leverage our resources, such as School Resource Officers. We work in partnership with our SROs to proactively prevent issues. As we develop a clearer picture of where students will be and what specific needs we will have, we will host community sessions to talk about community needs.

Our staff members will follow our reassigned students to their new schools according to the number of students moved to each school. We look at equity in many areas and will ensure that all students have a layered support structure. We have met with the principals to let them know how their schools will potentially be impacted, and we will be training staff about how to handle increases in student populations. We will also offer opportunities for families to visit the buildings to know where their students will attend.

We are reassigning students based on capacity at the receiving schools. We will not go over capacity in any building.  

We work to combat staff turnover no matter what. There are pipeline issues to get staff, but we are working on a recruitment and retention plans. Teacher supplement increase. we try to think differently about recruitment and think differently about recruiting and compensation. We are asking the staff where they would like to work so we can get their input

Students will be able to attend their new school's open house at the end of the summer. We will plan open house events specifically for families impacted by reassignment before the end of the 2022-2023 school year.