Another Inglewood School Put on Year-Round Schedule

Inglewood school board members agreed Wednesday to convert an additional elementary school to a year-round schedule this summer, but relented on other proposals to ease crowding after they were criticized last month by a large group of parents.

On July 1, Centinela Elementary School will join five other campuses in the Inglewood Unified School District that operate throughout the school year. The move was prompted by a districtwide enrollment that has swelled from 15,620 students four years ago to 16,400 students.

The board agreed to hold community forums and meet with a parents’ advisory group before implementing year-round schedules at other campuses. Two hundred angry parents complained that they had not been included in the decision-making process when the board took up the year-round schooling issue last month.

“I do not want to be a part of a decision that will backfire on the district,” said board member Zyra McCloud, urging her colleagues to delay the vote.

Board members also postponed action on a plan to create kindergarten through fifth-grade elementary schools and sixth- through eighth-grade middle schools by reorganizing the current schools.

The district, which covers Inglewood and Ladera Heights, now has 10 K-6 elementary schools, three K-8 elementary schools, two junior high schools, two high schools and one continuation high school.