Understanding School Reconfiguration and its Impact
Explore the decision to move the 6th grade to middle school, Dr. John Grieco Referendum, and research findings on transitions from elementary to middle school. Learn about the implications of greater discipline emphasis and suspension data from 2018-2023 in the educational setting.
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2024 2025 EPSD School Reconfiguration Dr. Marnie Hazelton Superintendent of Schools December 14, 2023
Decision to Move the 6 Grade to the Middle School In 2017, a decision was made to move the 6thgrade out of McCloud Elementary School and place the grade at Janis Dismus Middle School. Third grade was moved out of Grieco and into McCloud Elementary School Went into effect during the 2018 2019 school year. "The middle school educational environment is different from the elementary school environment in several ways. A sixth grader in an elementary school will typically be assigned to one teacher and spend much of the day in that teacher s classroom with the same group of students. A sixth grader in middle school will typically be assigned to a team of teachers and move from classroom to classroom over the course of the school day, with somewhat different groups of students in each. P. Cook, 2006.
2003 Dr. John Grieco Referendum The original John Grieco Referendum proposed that the newly built Dr. John Grieco Elementary School house grades 1 3. Currently, Grieco only services students in grade 1 and 2. The majority of the space at Grieco is utilized as storage spaces and offices. A recent spot check of materials housed at Grieco included unused whiteboard projectors (30) at a cost of $3,000 per unit, textbooks, consumable workbooks, and office supplies.
What Research Says Middle schools also place a greater emphasis on academic accomplishment (including greater use of between-classroom ability grouping), with less opportunity for close relationships to specific teachers (National Center for Education Statistics 2000; Mills 1998).
Research Continued Research suggests that difficulties in coping with multiple transitions may underlie some of the negative effects that many students experience during the transition from elementary to middle school (Eccles et al. et al., 1993). These effects include a decline in motivation and a loss of self-esteem, particularly when the transition occurs at younger ages (Simmons and Blythe, 1987; Rudolph et al., 2001); decline in academic achievement (Alspaugh and Harting, 1995; Alspaugh, 2001); strains on interpersonal functioning (Barber and Olsen, 2004); and in the long term, increased risk of dropping out of school (Alspaugh, 1998; Rumberger, 1995).
Reduction and Reallocation of Resources By housing the 3rdat Grieco, students in this testing grade will receive more support because they will be the only testing grade in the school. Versus being one of three testing grades at McCloud. There will be some transitional challenges, however, this reconfiguration will allow the curriculum department to start looking at moving the Ivy Program into a full fledged Gifted and Talented Program. The district has started meeting with various departments to strategize movement of human capital, as well as looking at possible programmatic changes.
