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CSD On School Transfers: "We have room for everybody"

The process of finding new school districts transferring out of the unaccredited Riverview Gardens and Normandy districts stretched into the weekend.

Written by Gregg Palermo.

Crews were busy at work on a summer construction project at the Cooperating School District office just outside Creve Coeur in St. Louis County Friday. Inside, administrators from around St. Louis gathered, trying to determine where 2600 students from Riverview Gardens and Normandy Schools would be dispersed in time for a school year that begins in just a matter of days.

KSDK TV reported early Friday evening that the process of placing students would continue into Saturday.

By 1 p.m. Friday, officials at CSD could confirm that everyone who wanted to end up Francis Howell, the district where Normandy will pay to provide bus transportation, would have a place there.

According to information Tweeted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jessica Bock, here's how the transfers manifested at Francis Howell Schools.

A lottery system was used to determine how which students Mehlville and Kirkwood, the two districts Riverview Gardens will pay to transport, would take in.

In some, but not all cases, transfer families already know which particular school they'll attend. Ladue, with several elementary schools but only a single middle school and high school, has pledged to have breakdowns of the transfers available to the public by the end of the day Monday. Francis Howell's data indicates a by-school tally.

Here's a sample of what we know heading into the weekend:

Sherrie Wehner, CSD's Chief Marketing Officer, assured reporters that all students seeking a transfer will find a new school district. "We have room for everybody," she said.

"We can't afford to make a mistake. We're talking about the school year for 2,600 kids," Wehner said. 


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