Student placement is a critical educational process based on set criteria serving educational purposes. Below is a brief bulleted description of this process:

 The building process is initiated in May

 The current classroom teacher individually reviews student strengths and needs to group their students for placement across an established number of classrooms projected for the coming year

 Grade level teams convene to co-ordinate placement and create heterogeneous groupings with consideration to gender, academic levels, diversity, student strengths and needs, with a goal toward appropriate instructional groupings

 Specialists and Support Teachers have an opportunity to collaborate throughout the process

 Class lists are generated

 Changes are rare and must be based on data or extenuating circumstances.

The professionals involved in the school setting, out of concern for the total school program, maintain the right and the responsibility for placement. We understand that parents are also interested in providing feedback. Please understand that we cannot honor requests for specific teachers. Children’s needs and programming will be the primary considerations for student placement.