The Chandler Unified School District governing board approved a plan Wednesday that will transition Knox Elementary School into the Knox Gifted Academy over the next few years.
The 5-0 vote means the school will not accept kindergarten or other new students to its typical classrooms beginning next school year. Knox Gifted Academy is in place as a "school within a school," currently with 219 students. Enrollment in the kindergarten through sixth-grade program next year is expected to rise to about 300, with 360 students predicted for the 2013-14 school year.
Students who move into the square mile bounded by Alma School Road, Arizona Avenue, Warner and Ray roads will be assigned to Andersen and Sanborn elementary schools.
soricobob posted at 4:59 am on Sat, Jan 28, 2012.
Academy for Gifted, Traditional Academies, what's next, tickets to the Oprah Show?
quietgardens posted at 5:59 am on Sun, Jan 29, 2012.
I disagree, soricobob. I would have loved to have a gifted program nearby to send my son. An unchallenging curriculum and a refusal to assess him in any way other than pen and paper would have been a much different school experience, let alone frustration and productivity.