COSTA MESA : District Considering Changes at 2 Schools
Administrators in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District have proposed converting a primary school and an upper elementary school to house kindergarten through sixth-grade students, a move that would require redrawn attendance boundaries in the 1995-96 school year.
Under the proposal, Kaiser Primary Elementary School, also known as the Woodland Site, would house kindergartners, first-graders and second-graders in the 1992-93 school year. Kaiser Primary now houses kindergarten and first-grade students.
Kaiser Upper Elementary School, which now houses grades 2 through 6, would drop second-graders and become a third- through sixth-grade school in the 1992-93 school year.
Both schools would gradually add other grades to become K-6 schools in the 1995-96 school year. Attendance boundaries would also be redrawn that year only for the Kaiser schools.
The proposal, made at Tuesday’s board meeting, is the first recommended to trustees to help ease overcrowding in the Newport Harbor zone of the district.
The proposal does not call for any changes in the 1991-92 school year.
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