Student placements are decided by our Placement Committee, which consists of the sending and receiving teachers, the specialist teachers and the administration. The members of the committee follow the school’s placement policy and have the best interests of the children in mind. The following are examples of our guidelines used by teaching staff when placing students into next year’s class groupings.
They include:
- Academic Strengths and Needs
- Social and Emotional Strengths and Needs
- Class size
Creating balanced class groupings for every class is important. All classes in our school have high expectations for academic achievement, whether they are straight grade classes or split classes. Teachers teach the curriculum, and meet the needs, interests, and lived experiences of the students in their classes. Occasionally, there may be personal information that is unknown to the school staff that may affect the child’s placement. Please feel free to share this information with your child’s present teacher.
In our Family of Schools, students and parents are notified of their class placement for the school year on the first day of school. We are trying to eliminate any possibility of disappointing or causing undue stress to children if classes need to be restructured.