Febuary 2, 2010: BOE meeting Brief
At the BOE Committee of the Whole meeting, the Wake Board of Education heard preliminary data from the calendar choice survey they commissioned. Full survey results, including those by school, are on the web. The school system received an overall 28 percent response rate, which was disproportionately from parents with students on a year round schedule. About 31.5 percent of students are on a year round calendar, but parents with students in year round made up 52.6 percent of those responding to the survey. Of the almost 40,000 parents who responded to the survey, 94.5 percent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their child's school, and 88.75 percent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their child's school calendar.
Of note, at Leesville Elementary, which has been a focus of discussions by newly elected Board member Deborah Prickett, 63.34 percent expressed a preference for the Year Round calendar, while 31.6 percent stated a preference for a Traditional calendar. At Leesville Middle School, 60 percent stated a preference for Traditional, while 36 percent preferred Year Round.
